North America’s first exhibition on the Indian Ocean opens April 24, 2027, bringing together objects from the ROM’s collection, including my work First Wave that was acquired last year. Click here to read more about Indian Ocean: Monsoon Worlds on the ROM’s website.
First Wave, 2021, Stoneware base with iron-oxide pigments printed on decals and fired onto handmade porcelain tiles with steel and painted wood fittings, 48 x 60 x 20 cm.
First Wave, 2021
I was moved to create a ceramic ship when in May 2020, the National Archives of Trinidad and Tobago released the images of the manifest of the Fattel Rozack, the first ship to carry Indians from Calcutta to Trinidad as indentured labourers in 1845. The sails are porcelain cast in firebrick and the boat is stoneware, with images of period coins from India and the British West Indies.