In 2021 seven forgotten canvases were discovered in a dark corner of The Brixton Recreation Centre by The Brixton Project.
We believe they may be paintings from the ‘Haiti High!’ exhibition that was shown here at the Brixton Art Gallery in 2004. Haiti High! presented for the first time in the United Kingdom, work from a collective of Haitian painters. Many of the 60 artists were self taught, trained in their family tradition, or trained at the Ecole Villa Art International in Port Au Prince. Their large paintings draw on traditional Haitian representations of everyday life through vibrant, colourful, abstracted patterns rendered rhythmically across the canvas.
We want to find out more about the identity of the artists and how these spectacular paintings ended up in the Rec. If you have any information we’d love to hear from you contact us on info@inbrixton.org.
See the artworks on display in The Lounge as part of our residency programme.
