Shaped by a passion for the arts that was nurtured during his formative years, Karl’s artistic expression is focused on community engagement and social impact.

Born on September 22, 1983, in Trinidad and Tobago, Karl’s artistic journey was shaped by a passion for the arts nurtured during his formative years at Queen’s Royal College (QRC), where he first established his creative skills and love for the arts.

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Katrina Coombs was born in St Andrew, Jamaica. She holds a BFA with Honours in Textiles and Fibre Arts (2008) and a Certificate in Curatorial Studies (2009) from the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts. In 2013, she obtained an MFA in Creative Practice from Transart Institute via The University of Plymouth. Coombs has a passion for fibre and an understanding of the sensitivity of threads and fabric, which she uses to bring forth unique designs and sculptural forms.  Her practice focuses on the impact of the Other on the “I”, and the role and existence of the woman. She weaves and stitches fibres and textiles as ways of engaging the ambivalent and stigmatizing ways society engages the female persona. Coombs’ work has been featured in numerous international exhibitions in Kingston, Manila, Berlin, New York, Bogota, Miami, Chicago, and Washington. She lives and works in St. Andrew, Jamaica.

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My name is Deborah Tyrell. I am a Textile Artist working on the island of Nevis, telling stories with and on cloth depicting my tropical environment and personal experiences.

The work started to tell my story around 2008 when I started making landscape and seascape images with cloth. This is the path that would see me call myself an artist. In July 2013, I called in about 15 persons who were creating paintings and organized an art exhibition to show the work that I was making in the same space as paintings. This endeavour would become my own Art Gallery. When these artists left due to Covid, I created a body of work that saw me become first the Featured Artist in the space then I created enough work to do a solo show. This solo show, delivered in February 2023, called Cloth Stories: Ageing and Dementia, told of my experiences around being a caregiver to my mother and estranged husband both navigating dementia at the same time.

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Christina Leslie is a Toronto-based artist whose lens-based practice delves into decolonization, identity, migration, marginalization, and her West Indian heritage. Using experimental photography and text, she explores the intersections of history, memory, and race to create thought-provoking visual narratives.

She holds a B.F.A. from OCAD University (2006) and an M.F.A. from the Savannah College of Art and Design (2022). Currently, she serves as the Interim Assistant Curator at the McMaster Museum of Art in Hamilton.

Leslie has delivered notable talks at significant venues, including the SPE Conference in Philadelphia (2010), the Position as Desired symposium at the Royal Ontario Museum (2011), and the McMaster Museum of Art (2022, 2023). She was a featured speaker at the Caribbean Art Meet-Up at the National Gallery West in Jamaica (2025).

Her recent series, Sugar Coat, earned critical acclaim from online platforms: Ain’t Bad Magazine, Feature Shoot, and PetaPixel, and was exhibited at BAND Gallery with support from the Honda Canada Foundation (2023), RIT City Art Space in Rochester, NY (2023), and the Exposure Festival in Calgary (2024). 

Leslie’s photographs have been shown at major institutions worldwide, including GAMU in Prague, Oakland University in Michigan, the Royal Ontario Museum, Canada’s Pier 21, the Art Gallery of Windsor, the Caribbean Art Fair in Jamaica, the McMaster Museum of Art, Paris Photo, and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Toronto.

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Courtnay McFarlane is a Jamaican-born visual artist, poet and spoken word performer whose work has been published in several African Canadian and Queer anthologies including: Fiery Spirits, and Voices: Writers of African Canadian Descent, Word-up, and Plush. He co-edited, along with Douglas Stewart, Debbie Douglas, and Makeda Silvera, the Sister Vision Press publication Ma-Ka Diasporic Juks: Contemporary Writing by Queers of African Descent. His performance poetry was recently featured in Phillip Pike’s documentary “Our Dance of Revolution.”

Over the last few decades, he has been an active volunteer in Black and LGBTQ+ community organizations such as the Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention, and Inside Out. Courtnay was a founding member of AYA, a ‘90s Toronto-based group for Black queer men, and Blackness Yes!, the organizing committee for the Blockorama event at Pride. He recently curated Legacies in Motion: Black Queer Toronto Archival Project that unearthed and celebrated the political and cultural activism of Black LGBTQ communities in Toronto in the 1980s and 1990s. Legacies in Motion was exhibited at BAND Gallery and at the ArQuives as part of the 2019 Myseum Intersections Festival.

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Image Credit: Courtnay McFarlane