The Barbados National Art Gallery, The Barbados Museum & Historical Society and AICA Southern Caribbean are delighted to invite you to a talk by Prof. Edward J. Sullivan titled The Caribbean: Landscapes of Desire Event details October 25th, 2024 6pm AST The Walled Garden Theatre, The Barbados Museum & Historical Society REGISTER HERE: https://bit.ly/SullivanTalk The ...
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01/10/2024Artist Grant Awardee and New Acquisition
01/08/2024The Board of the Barbados National Art Gallery is pleased to share news that the recipient of the 2024 Artist Grant is Ewan Atkinson! Since 2022, The Barbados National Art Gallery Board has offered one-time grants of up to BBD $5,000.00 to a Barbadian artist to support their invited participation in a regional or internationally ...
New Acquisition
01/05/2024The Board of the Barbados National Art Gallery is pleased to share news of the acquisition of two works by Cy Hutchinson: “Protection Series 11” and “Protection Series 12” (2023). These works were created for Hutchinson’s 2023 solo exhibition at Queen’s Park Gallery titled ‘A Collection of Pointless Objects’. The artist described this series as ...
Special Lecture
01/04/2024The Barbados National Art Gallery, The Barbados Museum & Historical Society, and AICA Southern Caribbean are pleased to welcome a special lecture by Prof. Cameron McCarthy titled The Work of Art in the Postcolonial Imagination: Notes Towards Globalizing Curriculum and Aesthetics. April 26th, 2024, 6pm The Walled Garden Theatre, Barbados Museum & Historical Society. In ...
New Acquisition
01/03/2024The Board of the Barbados National Art Gallery are pleased to share news of the acquisition of a work by Versia Harris: “They Say You Can Dream A Thing More Than Once” (2012-2022). As detailed on the artist’s website, “Harris’s ongoing interest in the ways that fantasy builds and determines our external world has led ...
The Board of the Barbados National Art Gallery is pleased to welcome Amanda Haynes, who has been engaged as a consultant to develop our fundraising and communications strategy. Amanda brings a wealth of expertise and experience, and with the Board will build a comprehensive fundraising plan as well as a communications strategy from February to ...
The Barbados National Art Gallery (BNAG) was delighted to receive the news that Block A at St. Ann’s Garrison is now its new home!
A threshold refers to a gate or doorway, a point of transition between one space or state and another, a marker that one thing ceases and something new takes its place. The current moment, as Barbados transitions from a parliamentary constitutional monarchy to its new status as a Republic is an opportunity for reflection on the shared common wealth of experiences that describe and define this nation.
A Home for the Barbados National Gallery
21/11/2021
When Cabinet made its decision on 25th June 2020 to designate Block A at St. Ann’s Garrison as the first home for the National Gallery it was the second time it did so. In August 2001 the Cabinet, examined a report on six sites which had been evaluated as having the potential to accommodate this new national collection.
