Partners in Art is proud to support After the Island: Caribbean Canadian Ceramics featuring work by PJ Anderson, Eddy Firmin, Manuel Mathieu, and Sharon Norwood at the Gardiner Museum.

Clay receives the gestures of the human body. Hands press, scrape, squeeze, and pour it. Forms are fixed by heat, becoming permanent yet breakable.

After the Island: Caribbean Canadian Ceramics brings together four Canadian artists with roots in the Caribbean—PJ Anderson, Eddy Firmin, Manuel Mathieu, and Sharon Norwood—who use clay to explore what our bodies inherit, protect, and carry forward. Spanning anglophone and francophone perspectives and different journeys of migration, their work challenges the idea of the island as isolated and self-contained, tracing connections across the region’s histories and geographies.

After the Island: Caribbean Canadian Ceramics is co-curated by Joséphine Denis (BAND) and Sequoia Miller, PhD (Gardiner Museum).