#guyanese art

[thunderstruck9]

Frank Bowling (British, born Guyana 1934), Kaieteruspray III, 1982. Acrylic on canvas, 83 3/4 x 69 1/2 in.

[dafaddu]

fashionably late to the party with guyanese miku RAHHHH 🇬🇾🇬🇾

[komorisansgallery]

Miku, take me home.

(some bg/process info under the cut!!)

My take on the Miku Culture trend as a mixed person who grew up detached from either of their cultures.

When I saw this trend going around, it made me feel very bittersweet. I’m a mixed person who was not only born and raised in Canada, but to parents who were also born and raised in Canada. My mother has never been to her home country, and my father has only been a handful of times to his. I love seeing everybody celebrating their own diverse cultures, but it makes me yearn for the culture that I’ve never had.

The left Miku is based of traditional dutch clothing. I was going to incorporate the prayer cloth that is very prominent in older dutch fashion, but decided not to because of how much of Miku’s design is her hair. So, I instead opted to give her the iconic dutch twin braids.

The right Miku is based off a mix of Indian + Gyuanese clothing. Finding any sort of reference for Indian-Guyanese traditional clothing was (unsurprisingly) really hard, so I tried to incorporate some of the elements from both cultures that I saw both online and in my own personal life (though those experiences are severely limited). While looking through Guyanese clothing, I saw lots of colourful patterns and colours, so i wanted to implement them into my design :3

To any mixed folks and/or people who grew up detached from their culture: I see you, I feel you, I understand you.

[mistressneo]

thought i'd hop on this trend with mince miku ^^

[laurynimani33]

Your Dream Girl 💋🩵

[arcusnoel]

Goobers

[killyridols]

after matisse by frank bowling, 2020, cotton 13 × 13 inches

[kallykrush]

✨Guyanese bride tingz 🇬🇾 💍 ✨

[twistedtalescomic]

So it’s been a rough few months for us here at Twisted Tales but that doesn’t mean art isn’t happening behind the scenes. Catch a few sneak peaks of things to be posted soon!

[briefbestiary]

Found in abandoned rum bottles, baccoo are known for both their propensity to perform tasks or wishes of those who bring them home, as well as their trickster natures when they haven't been properly fed.

For those folks who find a baccoo more trouble than they are worth, they reseal the spirit in the bottle before tossing them back out into the sea. There the baccoo will remain until they are found by another person in the future.

[thunderstruck9]

HezronH (Guyanese, 1983), Communion (The soil I’m from), 2023. Acrylic and oil pastel on paper, 48 × 51 in.

[mrsm-h]

Good morning 💜 #BHM

Black History Month

Edmond Montague "Eddy" Grant

Muscian, vocalist, producer, Ice record label owner, music publisher, Blue Wave studio owner and owner of Ice Records.

Eddy Grant was born 5 March 1948 in Plaisance, British Guyana. He came to England in 1960 when his parents sent for him to join them in Stoke Newington London.

In 1965, Eddy formed his first band, the Equals, long before the days of 2-Tone, the group was unique in being the first of Britain's multi-racial bands to receive any recognition. The West Indian contingent comprised of Jamaican-born singer Lincoln Gordon, with his twin brother Derv and Grant both on guitar, while the rhythm section of bassist Patrick Lloyd and drummer John Hall were native-born white Englishmen.

Eddy went onto have a successful solo career both sides of the Atlantic, his hit Electric Avenue was inspired by the Brixton riots.

Eddy Grant stands among an elite group of artists as one who has not just merely moved successfully across the musical spectrum, but has actually been at the forefront of genres and even created one of his own. From pop star to reggae radical, musical entrepreneur to the inventor of ringbang, the artist has cut a swath through the world of music and made it his own.

Credit:

Jo-Ann Greene

Source:

https://www.allmusic.com/artist/eddy-grant-mn0000796763/biography

[dogandcatcomics]

#repost @suchitramattaiart Suchitra Mattai (Denver, Colorado, USA, b. Guyana, 1973-). A Magical Garden, 2023, gouache on found print, 10 x 8 in. Note the canine representation in the background print.

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Anthony Fineran (B 1981)

[laurynimani33]

No more overstimulating social media. Going back to the tumblr daze.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"CANADIAN EDUCATION SOUGHT BY CHINESE SISTERS," Toronto Star. September 29, 1942. Page 3. ---- MODERN MISSES FROM BRITISH GUIANA ADD EXOTIC TOUCH TO U. OF T. CAMPUS ---- Three pretty Chinese girls from British Guiana, the Wong sisters, have come to Toronto to study a variety of subjects at the University of Toronto. Patricia, LEFT, is 22 and is taking up household economics and dancing. Nancy, CENTRE, 17, has enrolled, for a university arts course, and Pamela, RIGHT, is attending the Ontario College of Art. The girls belong to a family which settled in the New World five generations ago.

CANADA SO DIFFERENT SAY CHINESE SISTERS ---- Three From British Guiana Are Here to Study at U. of T. ---- Student guests in Toronto are three little Chinese sisters named Wong. They are residents of British Guiana, and the trio doesn't speak a word of Chinese.

It was five generations ago that the Wongs came out of China and went to British Guiana, They speak with a decided English accent. Two of them. Patricia. 22, and Pamela, 20, have been at school in England for some years. Pamela had hopes of Cambridge. then war came.

"This war does strange things to ail of us," said Patricia, who is here to study home economics, but who loves dancing and music and studies them both in her spare time.

"We arrived in Montreal nearly two months ago and there I was sent to a children's camp." laughed blue black haired Pamela, who looks 15 years at the most.

"I'm going to be a journalist," chimed in the baby, Nancy, 17.

Patricia, a composer and singer of her own music, spent some years at the Royal Academy, of Music. "I have travelled aloue since I was 14, so it is nothing new to me. But Canada is so vastly different," she said.

Pamela is a student at the Ontario College of Art. Nancy is also a university student.

DISCIPLE OF THE DANCE Patricia Wong has always wanted to be an artiste. She attended the Royal Academy of Music in England, but the war decided her parents to keep her on this side of the Atlantic. Now, as shown at RIGHT, she studies dancing under the direction of Boris Volkoff.