Over the years, Bahamian Art & Culture has featured the work of innovative inter-disciplinary artist Anina Major, who primarily works with clay. She studied at The College of The Bahamas, earned a Bachelors Degree in Graphic Design from Drexel University and has recently graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design’s MFA Ceramics programme. We are honoured to feature her most recent body of work that was created specifically for her graduate thesis. It is entitled “In The Marketplace” (2017).
She describes this body of work as a return to the inspirational source. In her search of the place that articulates the essence of her practice, Anina returns to a metaphorical place where there is an abundance of creative freedom and an authentic expression of diasporic connections. A place that holds a fascination for people of all cultures and one that functions as a place for exchange where all things find their place and is intended to facilitate transactional relationships between people.
Understanding Anina’s ethos as an artist is rooted in where she is from. The decision to voluntarily establish a home contrary to the location in which she was born and raised motivated Anina to investigate the relationship between self and place and to further explore her own migration and the emotional complexities that surface, with a desire to fabricate terms of cultural integrity and its defining influence... [Read more in Smith & Benjamin's 'Bahamian Art & Culture']
Over the years, Bahamian Art & Culture has featured the work of innovative inter-disciplinary artist Anina Major, who primarily works with clay. She studied at The College of The Bahamas, earned a Bachelors Degree in Graphic Design from Drexel University and has recently graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design’s MFA Ceramics programme. We are honoured to feature her most recent body of work that was created specifically for her graduate thesis. It is entitled “In The Marketplace” (2017).
She describes this body of work as a return to the inspirational source. In her search of the place that articulates the essence of her practice, Anina returns to a metaphorical place where there is an abundance of creative freedom and an authentic expression of diasporic connections. A place that holds a fascination for people of all cultures and one that functions as a place for exchange where all things find their place and is intended to facilitate transactional relationships between people.
Understanding Anina’s ethos as an artist is rooted in where she is from. The decision to voluntarily establish a home contrary to the location in which she was born and raised motivated Anina to investigate the relationship between self and place and to further explore her own migration and the emotional complexities that surface, with a desire to fabricate terms of cultural integrity and its defining influence... [Read more in Smith & Benjamin's 'Bahamian Art & Culture']
