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OU KNOW HOW PEOPLE DOES SAY ‘BE OUTSIDE THE BOX’? I
SAID, ‘WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF YOU PUT YOURSELF INSIDE THE
BOX?’” - ARTIST SHEENA ROSE.
If I wanted to get fancy, I’m sitting with the phenomenal
contemporary Caribbean artist Sheena Rose at her Ruby Park, St.
Philip atelier. But plain and simple, I’m at Sheena’s home, where
much of her art is created. That’s the thing about Sheena Rose, you
can package her anyway you like because her creative scope is so
wide and versatile. Her personality is down to earth and relatable.
Rose is an academic, a Fulbright Scholar pursuing a MFA in
Studio Arts at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro USA,
with aspirations of also becoming a professor. In these times, her
life is consumed with creating and defending her idea of art, of
what she creates in the studio. “In the first year I was reflecting. I
was thinking about myself being from Barbados being from the
Caribbean and I decided to put myself in the box.”