I met myself in the Sky, 2014.
About:
Cosima in The Evergreens When I Dropped ThisVase, 2014.
Brianna McCarthy is a mixed media visual communicator working and living in Trinidad + Tobago.
She is a self-taught artist and aims to create a new discourse examining issues of beauty, stereotypes, representation as well as the documenting the process – particularly poignant in an ever smaller digitally connected world.
Her form takes shape through masking and performance art, fabric collage, traditional media, and installation pieces. (website artist)
Clifford and Woodford, 2010.
“Afro-Caribbean women have always been portrayed as strong, long-suffering, exoticised and picturesque beings against a backdrop of poverty, hardship, abuse and/or scorn. The range of emotional experience and expressions of our women in Caribbean art and culture have thus been limited to these circumstances. Her work exposes a new range of depth of expressions and emotions, which for the most part, are non existent in our recorded culture. Hopefully, her faces will add to, and possibly change the perceptions, relations and possibilities we hold for ourselves.” (Creative Caribbean Network)
