Artist: Brianna McCarthy

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. A few highlights along the journey include:

2005: exhibited as part of a T&T delegation to Venezuela for Festival of Youth and Students XVI.
2008: showed collection of drawings and paintings in a group exhibition at the Alice Yard in T&T.
2009: Presented 12 Girls at Trinidad s Erotic Art Week, at the Brooklyn Bar Gallery.
2011: Exhibited at MoCADA and La Maison d Art in, New York as a part of the CariBBeing Festival.
2012: First solo exhibition AfterColour at Medulla Art Gallery in Woodbrook, Trinidad.
2013: Exhibition Saints and Jumbies at Medulla Art Gallery in Woodbrook, Trinidad.
2015: Collection Vetiver Night Women

In her own words; related to the exhibition AfterColour: "I wanted to redefine that old term 'coloured' to literally mean coloured. I am stripping the people in my pieces of racial markers. There's no hair texture or hair for that matter. Skin colour is done away with. I've used patterns and colours to present individuals and investigate who a person really is"

McCarthy doesn't just paint or draw. In fact she describes what she does as "making things" as her work features everything from newsprint to fabric.