Fragile Crossing—No. 20 of Sixty-five
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John Beadle. Ring Play—Study. 2003. Acrylic on aluminum. 25.5 x 19.75 inches. Courtesy of The Dawn Davies Collection.
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John A. Beadle, is the son of a Bahamian mother and Jamaican father who lives and works in Nassau. He studied at The College of The Bahamas; received a BFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design; studied in Rome, Italy, as part of RISD's European Honors Program; and earned an MFA from the Tyler School of Art of Temple University. He has been a member of several of the Bahamas's most prominent artist collectives including B-CAUSE, Opus 5, and the art groups B.B.B and Jammin'. He has lectured in art at The College of The Bahamas and exhibited widely nationally and internationally at the Biennial of Painting of the Caribbean and Central America in Santo Domingo, and at various venues in Japan, New Zealand, France, Germany and the United States. He has served as a principal designer and sculptor for the Junkanoo Group "One Family." Beadle's work has been accepted for each of the eight National Exhibitions through 2016 at the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, and he was one of the artists representing The Bahamas at the 2010 Liverpool Biennial. In early 2010 he completed a short residency in Zambia, sponsored by Gasworks/Triangle Arts Trust of London; participated in the Master Artists of The Bahamas Exhibition in Waterloo Centre for the Arts in Iowa in 2011; and in 2013 at the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, in 40 Years of Bahamian Art. He held solo exhibitions Nature's Lines in 2012 at the Central Bank of The Bahamas Art Gallery, and The John Beadle Project at the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas in 2013. His work was shown in EN MAS': Carnival and Performing Art of the Caribbean in New Orleans, Cayman, Nassau and Chicago. In 2016, he reunited with Stan Burnside and Antonius Roberts to create works for Jammin' 4, both to produce commissioned work for Baha Mar and for an exhibition held at the D'Aguilar Art Foundation.
