dready – the first cayman islands national biennial

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                     Moko Jumbies on the wall for the first cayman islands art biennial

moko jumbies, so burnt orange and pretty …

it first came into being for a show at the oxo tower in london, sponsored by jersey based law firm mourant; it then went straight from there to represent the cayman islands at carifesta in Barbados, in june and august 2017, respectively …

it circled back to sit on our wall for a year until the National Gallery asked for it to be in their 1st Biennial show …

and then in the same breath I was asked if the National Gallery and the Ministry of Culture could buy it for the national permanent collection …

is cool … it’s provenance is cool …

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                   induction ceremony with another dready peaking out in the left corner

jump up …

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Dready art is a 100% caribbean product: it was imagined here, designed here, tested here – in barbados, bvi, cayman, grenada and jamaica – we live here and are from here, our children were born here, I draw it here (mostly, cause sometimes I draw it when I’m traveling!). So despite what has become the kind of global reach of dready art we try to think of ourselves as a little caribbean company just doing our thing.

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