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Lisa Howie, curator, consultant and founding director of the Black Pony Gallery (Photograph supplied)<\/p>\n
Curator and creative consultant Lisa Howie has been recognised for her work in elevating Caribbean art in the international arena.<\/p>\n
The former director of the Bermuda National Gallery, \u201ccultural entrepreneur\u201d and founding director of Black Pony Gallery, was featured in an article in US-based Vibe Culture Daily after the Black Pony booth captured the attention of critics at the Scope Art Show in Miami.<\/p>\n
The article was titled \u201cLisa Howie: The Woman Bringing Caribbean Art to the World Stage\u201d.<\/p>\n
Ms Howie said the attention gained was significant as Scope is a \u201cpremier showcase for contemporary art, convening the most dynamic emerging galleries and artists from around the world for more than two decades\u201d.<\/p>\n
At Scope, Black Pony Gallery presented Bermudian Charles Zuill and Jason Bennett from the Bahamas \u2014 two artists from different generations challenging stereotypical \u201cisland imagery\u201d in their abstract expressions.<\/p>\n
In partnership with the Fuze Art Fair Blue Floor Project, Black Pony Gallery also presented Dede Brown of the Bahamas, who received a positive review from Vibe Culture Daily.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe booth did very well \u2014 sales were good, networking was epic and new projects are unfolding,\u201d Ms Howie said.<\/p>\n
\u201cCollectors, curators, creatives and academics were captivated by Bennett\u2019s use of colour, texture and graphic elements, while others were intrigued by Zuill\u2019s meditative drawings.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople were generally wowed by Zuill\u2019s age and the fact that we are from Bermuda, and there was a general love for the art book I published on Zuill\u2019s journey.<\/p>\n
\u201cMani Munroe\u2019s Vibe Culture Daily article elevated our experience at Scope. It feels good to be acknowledged for our collective efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n
To close the fair, Ms Howie joined Bahamian artists and \u201cvisionaries\u201d Antonius Roberts and John Cox for a panel conversation that discussed dialogue, visibility, collaboration and lifting Caribbean Atlantic voices.<\/p>\n
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Nhuri Bashir, left, Lisa Howie, centre, and Jevon Williams in the Black Pony Gallery at the Scope Art Show (Photograph supplied)<\/p>\n
Nhuri Bashir, a Bermudian artist who flew in for Miami Art Week, said: \u201cLisa\u2019s panel at Scope articulated something I have been feeling with real clarity.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe gave colour and context to the growing and meaningful presence of artists from the Caribbean, and the northern Atlantic family islands, including Bermuda and the Bahamas.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe framed it as a collective wave rather than isolated success stories and positioned our region as a serious contributor to the global art conversation, not as a trend, but as a sustained force.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Jason Bennett\u2019s artwork is installed in an acclaimed interior designer\u2019s home (Photograph supplied)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Created: Dec 20, 2025 08:00 AM Lisa Howie, curator, consultant and founding director of the Black Pony Gallery…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,196635,458,459,64,63,460,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-360764","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-general","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-artsanddesign","12":"tag-au","13":"tag-australia","14":"tag-design","15":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}