Biography
Alanis Forde is figurative portraiture and surrealist Barbadian artist who works mainly with oil paint and collage on traditional surfaces like canvas. Alanis attended the Barbados community College and attained her Bachelor’s Degree and has been a full time artist for six years.
Alanis' work navigates life through a portrayed paradise that questions concepts based on black female identity in an idealized, exotic, Caribbean space. By portraying herself and her reality. Forde questions the meaning of escape and paradise as someone who dwells in a place that is a paradise and escape for others. Both introspective and escapist, Forde’s work depicts her ongoing conflict between comfort at home and the desire to escape the ironic paradise she exists within.
She’s been in a number of international and regional group exhibitions at Vermont Studio Center, Cromwell Place and The World Trade Center to name a few. You can find her work in both public and private collections in London, Nigeria, USA and The Caribbean Museum Center For The Arts in St.Croix. Forde has just completed her third residency with Black Curatorial x ICF in London. She’s also been featured in publishing’s such as Sugarcane Magazine and ARTnews.
Forde currently lives and works in Barbados.
Alanis Forde is figurative portraiture and surrealist Barbadian artist who works mainly with oil paint and collage on traditional surfaces like canvas. Alanis attended the Barbados community College and attained her Bachelor’s Degree and has been a full time artist for six years.
Alanis' work navigates life through a portrayed paradise that questions concepts based on black female identity in an idealized, exotic, Caribbean space. By portraying herself and her reality. Forde questions the meaning of escape and paradise as someone who dwells in a place that is a paradise and escape for others. Both introspective and escapist, Forde’s work depicts her ongoing conflict between comfort at home and the desire to escape the ironic paradise she exists within.
She’s been in a number of international and regional group exhibitions at Vermont Studio Center, Cromwell Place and The World Trade Center to name a few. You can find her work in both public and private collections in London, Nigeria, USA and The Caribbean Museum Center For The Arts in St.Croix. Forde has just completed her third residency with Black Curatorial x ICF in London. She’s also been featured in publishing’s such as Sugarcane Magazine and ARTnews.
Forde currently lives and works in Barbados.