NEWS
CARIFESTA XV: “Archiving the Self” Workshop
One of the pleasures of being invited to CARIFESTAXV was the opportunity to lead my workshop, “Archiving the Self: Collaging Personal Cartographies”. I was delighted that every available seat was filled with participants ranging from teenagers to people in their 70s, many of them eager to make their first collage masterpieces.
CARIFESTA XV: Fragments and Futures
On August 24, I joined my sister in collage, artist Gherdai Hassell, for the panel Fragments and Futures: Collage as Radical Reclamation at Queen’s Park.
“Black Madonna: Divinity” Commission Was a Spiritual Journey
Commissioned by a private collector as a graduation gift, Black Madonna: Divinity celebrates and commemorates her stepping fully into her Black Quaker faith as a minister.
Coming Inside: Moving into Making Still Life Collages
I didn’t set out to make still lifes, but here we are. For the past month I have been making tiny triptychs as a way of coming inside from the moonlight.
Collage Zine: “Seats of Flower” Studio Project
Seats of Flower is a one-page, hand-folded zine reflecting on my past year of collage-making, while sitting in a place and time fraught with upheaval and daily reckonings.
My Work Featured in UWI’s Graduate Seminar on Black Feminist Art and the Creative Imagination
My collage work will be featured in Space and the Creative Imagination, a July 30 graduate seminar at UWI Cave Hill led by PhD candidate Bianca Moña. The talk explores how Black women artists reimagine the natural world as a space of refuge, power, and possibility.
Artist Talk and Collage Workshop at CARIFESTA XV: Barbados
I’m thrilled to be invited to CARIFESTA XV in Barbados, to take part in the artist talk “Fragments & Futures: Collage as Radical Reclamation,” alongside Florine Demosthene and Gherdai Hassell. I’ll also be leading a workshop titled “Archive the Self: Collaging Personal Cartographies.”
Small Axe: In Conversation with Poet Anton Nimblett
I am delighted to be the featured artist for Small Axe SX Art January 2024 issue in which I discuss the evaluation of Another Poem, my large-scale mixed media collage that will be exhibited in The Plural of He exhibition at Leslie Lohman Museum starting March 15, 2024.
Field Studies: The Launch of Yabisi Guada Coloring Books
So much of my art practice has been rooted in the visually stunning quality of Barbados’ landscape that when Dr. Sonia Peter approached me in 2019 about collaborating on a duo of activity coloring books for adults and children featuring the rich biodiversity of the island, I was more than a little excited.
Visionary Art Collective Featured Artist Interview
This week I’m the featured artist interview on the Visionary Art Collective website. I talk literary and musical influences as well as ins and outs of my art practice.
Llanor Alleyne Joins Tourné Gallery with Show of “Fugitive Ecologies” Collages
The debut of“Fugitive Ecologies”, a series of “rebellious botanical” collages created in early 2020, exploring adaptation, dislocation, and beauty during a time of global uncertainty. Now showing with the Tourné Gallery.
Quarantine Q&A: Conversation with Dr. Marsha Pearce
I reflect on moving to Tulsa at the start of the pandemic and how that transition sparked her “Fugitive Ecologies” collage series, in conversation with Trinidadian cultural theorist Dr. Marsha Pearce.
Jamaican Observer: Interview with Jacqueline Bishop
I am featured in the Jamaica Observer’s Bookends section as part of their #CaribbeanStrong series, discussing the evolution of her collage practice, the influence of literature and place, and the role of improvisation in my visual work.
6 for a 9: Exhibition with Ronald Williams
I debut two new bodies of collage work in 6 for a 9, a co-exhibition with Ronald Williams at Morningside Gallery in Barbados. The show reflects a rich creative exchange through silhouette, scale, sound, and abstraction.
Collaboration with Fashion Brand Enclothed Cognition
I collaborated with Enclothed Cognition to create a limited-edition kimono for the 2018/19 season, blending collage, fashion, and design into a sculptural garment now touring design museums across the Netherlands.
“Queering Cane” Intervention at Barbados Museum & Historical Society During Museum Week
Installed at the Barbados Museum during International Museum Week 2018, “Hello, My Love” is a collage intervention by Llanor Alleyne that reclaims visual space within the colonial archive. The work centers queer Caribbean intimacy in direct conversation with the museum’s display of Agostino Brunias prints.
“Queering Cane” Collages to Debut at Prizm 2017
I reflect on the creation of my Queering Cane collage series for the 2017 Prizm Art Fair in Miami. Installed alongside Art Basel, this new work explores queer intimacy and belonging in the Caribbean through layered, symbolic landscapes.
The Guard: An Intervention at the Barbados Museum
I delve behind the scenes of The Guard, a 2017 endurance performance created with artist Nyugen E. Smith at the Barbados Museum. Together, we examine power, presence, and visibility inside colonial-era gallery spaces.
“Written in the Body” Solo Show to Debut at Frame & Art Co.
Written in the Body, my first solo exhibition in Barbados, brings together new collages exploring female subjectivity, transformation, and interior experience through abstraction and Black feminist portraiture.
Process: First Works
I share my collage process and the role of “first works”—abstract paintings on mylar that serve as foundations, experiments, and sometimes sacrifices in the pursuit of layered visual storytelling.