CARLISLE HARRIS
Born 1945
Carlisle Harris received his art training at Howard University, Washington D.C. and was the Vice-Principal of John S. Donaldson Technical Institute. He was the President of the Trinidad Art Society for many years.
He works primarily in acrylic on canvas, but frequently mixes the media using sand, modelling paste and oil based sprays. Carlisle's work has a definite affinity to spiritual announcements both in their subject matters and in their titles.
EXHIBITIONS
Between 1971 and 2006 Mr. Harris has conducted many One Man Shows on his native soil at such venues as The Holiday Inn, The National Museum, National Commercial Bank, Ikon Art Gallery, Breton Hall, the Guardian Life Building and the Trinidad Art Society's Annual Exhibition.
Abroad, he has had showings in 1989 at the Algee Kerr Gallery and the Ackwa Harrison Gallery in Canada. A One-man show was held at the Home of Dr. Miki Becker in Washington DC in 1972 and another at the Cuba Biennial, Wilfredo Lam Center, in Havana in 1986. Among his other accomplishments, Harris has done set designs and costuming for many theatre and television productions. In 1981 he designed the BWIA flight attendants' pin and did the print design for their in flight coveralls. His many murals decorate various sites in Trinidad, including National Commercial Bank, Riverside Plaza and Trinidad and Tobago Express Newspapers, Independence Square, Port of Spain. In 2005 his work was shown in Nigeria.
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
I have been working around a central theme for a number of years in an effort to resolve fully my expressions. This theme always related to peoples' inner strength and their sustained faith. This perforce has involved articulation of interpersonal relationship and the value therein to society. I firmly believe that society suffers without faith, inner strength and good relations.
