Bernadette Indira Persaud (born 1946) is a
Guyanese painter. She is a graduate of the
University of Guyana
The University of Guyana, in Georgetown, Guyana, is Guyana's national and most prestigious higher education institution. It was established in April 1963 with the following Mission: "To discover, generate, disseminate, and apply knowledge of th ...
and of the
Burrows School of Art in
Georgetown.
Her style is
expressionistic
Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radi ...
, and bears some resemblance to the work of
Isaiah James Boodhoo,
Wendy Nanan
Wendy Nanan (born 1955) is an artist from Trinidad and Tobago. Much of her work focuses on the multi-racial aspects of Trinidadian society, often featuring images of religious figures and post-colonial symbolism. Nanan has exhibited in Paris, L ...
, and
Kenwyn Crichlow of
Trinidad and Tobago
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. Persaud has also written about art for numerous Guyanese publications.
In 1985 she won the Guyana National Visual Arts Competition. In 2012 she was inducted into the Caribbean Hall of Fame for Excellence.
in 2014 the National Gallery of Art in Guyana held a retrospective of her work.
References
Visual Arts Section ''The Arts Journal'', Volume I Number I, containing a curatorial statement by Persaud.
*Veerle Poupeye. ''Caribbean Art''. London: Thames and Hudson; 1998.
1946 births
Living people
20th-century Guyanese painters
20th-century Guyanese women
20th-century women painters
21st-century Guyanese painters
21st-century women painters
Guyanese women painters
Indo-Guyanese people
University of Guyana alumni
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