Bernadette Persaud Explained

Bernadette Indira Persaud (born 1946) is a Guyanese painter. She is a graduate of the University of Guyana and of the Burrows School of Art in Georgetown.^[1] Her style is expressionistic, and bears some resemblance to the work of Isaiah James Boodhoo, Wendy Nanan, and Kenwyn Crichlow of Trinidad and Tobago. Persaud has also written about art for numerous Guyanese publications.

In 1985 she won the Guyana National Visual Arts Competition. In 2012 she was inducted into the Caribbean Hall of Fame for Excellence.^[2]

in 2014 the National Gallery of Art in Guyana held a retrospective of her work.^[3]

References

• Visual Arts Section. The Arts Journal, Volume I Number I, containing a curatorial statement by Persaud.
• Veerle Poupeye. Caribbean Art. London: Thames and Hudson; 1998.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Artist: Bernadette Indira Persaud . CLICO Art Gallery . 28 December 2021 . 10 October 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081010115032/http://www.clico-caribbean-art.com/artist.jsp?id=42 . 10 October 2008 . dead.
2. Web site: She Rocks! Meet Bernadette Persaud - Artist/Writer, 2012 Caribbean Hall of Fame Inductee . Guyanese Girls Rock! . 28 December 2021 . 18 December 2012.
3. Web site: Bernadette Persaud . Cultural Encounters . 28 December 2021 . en.