© DOONGALIK STUDIOS ART GALLERY NEWSLETTER

January2010—
January2010—Volume 4, Issue 1 - HAPPY NEW YEAR !!
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PROMOTING THE VISION: ”By the Year 2020 more visitors will be attracted to The Bahamas by Bahamian
Art, Culture and Heritage than by Sun, Sea and Sand.”

Brigitte Bowyer Carey’s Watercolor Art Show

“Island Scenes” Opening Photos

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

Brigitte’s ISLAND SCENES Opening Photos 1

Transforming Spaces 2010—Save the date 2

New Additions & Art News 3

SAVE THE DATE Sat & Sun, March 13 & 14
The time is fast approaching
for this year’s popular Trans-
forming Spaces Art Tour
which is celebrating its sixth
anniversary!!
Patrons purchase a $30.00
ticket for the day which al-
lows them to be driven along
with other art lovers in the
comfort of an air-conditioned
bus with it own knowledge-
able Tour Guide to visit dif-
ferent Art Spaces located
throughout the island. The
spaces are specifically
‘transformed’ for the occa-
sion and patrons get the op-
portunity to meet and interact
with the artists, view and pur-
chase their works and enjoy
delicious food and drink!
This year the following nine
spaces will be participating:
Doongalik Studios Art Gal-
lery, Ladder Gallery, New
Providence Art & Antiques,
Pink ‘Un, Popop Studios,
Post House Gallery, PRO
Gallery, StingraeStudio
and The Hub.
Tickets will soon be available
for purchase from the Na-
tional Art Gallery of The Ba-
hamas (NAGB), Doongalik
Studios, Village Road and
The Ladder Gallery. Tele-
phone us for more info.
DOONGALIK STUDIOS
Village Road
PRESENTS
EARTH TO
FLIGHT
a collaborative visual
experience of
Painting and Sculpture
by
Averia Wright
and
Toby Lunn
More info in next month’s Newsletter
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Doongalik Studios extends a
warm welcome to the New
Acting Director of the National
Art Gallery of The Bahamas,
David Bailey, MBE who had
this to say about the Tour:
“It is important to
note that the
Transforming
Spaces event is
created by a cu-
ratorial collective
made up of many of the self-run
visual art spaces, who come to-
gether to ensure that over a
weekend Bahamians and visitors
are given an intense visual art
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experience. Forgive my use of
formal terminology but I really
want to emphasize by using
these terms that the works on
display have not been arbitrarily
put together as a mis-matched
survey of Bahamian art, but that
there has been a focused discus-
sion and planning process in-
volved in order to ensure that the
audience will be exposed to the
rich quality of the art and the
amazingly diverse talent of the
artists.
Transforming Spaces serves as a
recurring yearly reminder of the
necessity to see visual art within
the context of place and each
space will offer a distinctive per-
spective on Bahamian art. Every
member of the audience will be
taken on a visual art experience
that at its heart has a narrative
which raises questions about the
nature of art both within the con-
text of the gallery space as well
as within the context of the role
and nature of contemporary art in
the wider Bahamas.
We are now in the 2nd decade of
the 21st century and are witness-
ing the legacy of the economic
crash as well as recent ecological
disasters in our neighborhood
country of Haiti. It is in times like
these that we need to look to-
wards the visual arts for inspira-
tion, encouragement and the abil-
ity to progress forward and it is
for this that I welcome you to join
us on our Transforming Spaces
journey.”

NEW ADDITIONS
AMOS FERGUSON— Bahamian
master, the late Amos Ferguson,
depicts these captured turtles in
his signature style.
TOBY LUNN—New abstract dip-
tychs by our Sales Rep. including
oils and stains as well as inks on
paper are available. Don’t miss
his upcoming work for Transform-
ing Spaces!
JANE WATEROUS—Welcome
back to Jane with this colourful
heart of resin on canvas. We also
have a few more of her fascinat-
ing figure paintings for sale.
DOONGALIK NEWS Page 3
NEW YEAR’S CELEBRATION-
Our Doongalik Family cele-
brated the New Year by getting
together for our annual Staff
breakfast. We were happy that
former Sales Rep Marie Du-
puch who was home visiting
from her rigorous studies
WILLICEY TYNES—We are abroad could attend! A great
pleased to be featuring this strik- time was had by all!!
ing female bronze bust by Wil- 
licey in the Gallery. NATIONAL ART GALLERY
DEBATE—A Day of Absence
SUSAN ROBERTS
This new
print of an is-
land horse
from Susan
joins her other
popular ma- Doongalik Owner, Jackson
rine images. Burnside (left) was invited to be
a guest speaker along with Dr
Nicolette Bethel (centre) and
Ward Minnis in a debate dis-
cussing the importance of Art-
P. NEKO ists in the Bahamian commu-
MEICHOLAS nity. View the ongoing dialogue
at http://bit.ly/8XH5Po and
We have two www.mentalslavery.com
new interesting
functional art BAHAMIAN ART AROUND THE WORLD
clocks by Neko
with marine mo- Don’t forget that if you would like
tifs! us to feature your Bahamian art-
work purchase in its new home in
your part of the world, please
send us a digital image for publi-
cation!