Cayman: New National Gallery Exhibitions Open in the Sister Islands

As a part of an ongoing collaboration between the National Gallery of the Cayman Islands (“NGCI”), the Little Cayman Museum, Cayman Brac Reef Resort and the Cayman Islands Legacy Fund (CILF), two new art exhibitions have opened in the Sister Islands this week. Following several successful projects over the past two years, this is the fifth collaboration between the partners, bringing travelling exhibitions from the National Gallery collections to audiences in the Sister Islands.

‘Luminescent Forms: Art Under the Microscope’ opened at Cayman Brac Reef Resort after a three-month showing at the Little Cayman Museum. The popular exhibition bridges art and science through photographs of foraminifera, tiny single-celled organisms found in marine habitats around the world that, when fossilized become part of our sand structure. Using a binocular microscope, engineer Roland Verreet meticulously magnifies these creatures to over 50 times their original size, allowing us to view their remarkable structures in large format. The stunning images aim to shed light on a captivating and remarkable world that few know exist. 

The Little Cayman Museum is hosting Seascapes: Maritime Art from the National Collection. Honouring our maritime heritage, the exhibition seeks to highlight our intrinsic relationship with the ocean and the beauty of our coastline through artworks from the National Collection. The featured artists are among the Islands’ most prolific and each have approached their work in different ways. Some have sought to capture light and water in their purest aesthetic forms by painting ‘en plein air’ directly on the seashore, while others have illustrated their subject via a more stylised approach— often the result of careful study and development in a studio environment.

Michael Tibbetts, chairman of CILF, a non-profit organization established by the Tibbetts family to honour the legacy of Linton and Polly Tibbetts, says, “we are proud to support NGCI by hosting their exhibitions and working with their staff to provide inspiring programming. This not only brings stunning exhibitions to audiences in Cayman Brac, but also allows this partnership to continue our vision for the Little Cayman Museum, which is to share our unique history and culture with our community and visitors to the island.”

Both exhibitions will run until 05 June 2020 and admission is free. The Cayman Brac Reef Resort welcomes visitors to the exhibition daily from 10:00am – 5:00pm, and the Little Cayman Museum is open from 1:30pm-4:00pm from Monday to Thursday, 2:00pm-4:00pm on Friday and 10:30am-12:00pm on Saturday.  For more information or to view related events please visit https://www.nationalgallery.org.ky/see/exhibitions/. To book school tours and education workshops relating to either exhibition please email [email protected] .