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It is easy to see why Emanuel Phillips Fox’s Bathing hour (L’heure du bain) c.1909 is one of the most popular paintings in the Gallery’s Australian Art Collection: sun sparkling on a golden beach; a pretty woman in a lovely dress tenderly drying a little girl; a tranquil blue sea; children bathing and making sandcastles; elegant ladies and one — rather diminished — gentleman in conversation by the shore; figures dangling their feet over the edge of a rowing boat. It’s like a dream of an endless golden childhood; a dream that is vividly real in our memories, so real that it can evoke the excited cries of the children, the soft whisper of the tiny waves on the shore.

It is tempting immediately to associate this work with one of the aspects of Australian culture that is assumed to be essential to life: the culture of the beach; the

It is quite hard to keep up with all the exponential changes we are experiencing.  Take technology for example.  We get used to a device or app and before we know it there has been a huge update that alters the experience or it’s gone and replaced by something else.  I think we can all agree that disruptive change is not the standard in society, but the question becomes how is this impacting education?  Honesty is the first step to grow and improve.  As you take a critical lens to your practice and that of your colleagues or school, what do you see?  Learner success relies on our openness to challenge conventional thought processes in order to evolve. 

I shared the following in Disruptive Thinking in Our Classrooms:

I would wager that many of our assumptions in education stem from how we were taught throughout our own educational journey.

April Bey: Colonial Swag
April 21 to May 28, 2022
Tern Gallery
Mahogany Hill, Western Road
Nassau Island
Nassau / Paradise Island, Bahamas

TERN Gallery is pleased to present Colonial Swag, a solo exhibition of paintings, tapestries and mixed media by artist April Bey. Raised in Nassau on the island of New Providence in The Bahamas and currently residing in Los Angeles, Bey’s interdisciplinary work combines American and Bahamian visual culture and contemporary pop culture into potent and imaginative social critique.

Her work incorporates elements of feminism, generational theory, Afrofuturism, Afro-surrealism and constructs of race within supremacist systems. TERN’s first solo exhibition of Bey’s trenchant work, Colonial Swag, will be on view from April 21 to May 28,2022, with an opening reception on April 21st, 2022, at 7p.m.

Bey’s artworks are often crafted around the perspective of the fictional planet Atlantica,

In a society that is fast pace, forever changing, challenging us, and pushing us, our homes should be a place to recharge yourself. It should be a place we feel safe, comfortable, relaxed. Don’t fret parents, I don’t mean a silent and clean house, although that is inviting at times. Children make noise and mess, it’s inevitable. What I am talking about here is how you use your home. It has been proven, over and over, that our emotions can feed off the environment around us.

So how do use your home to recharge?

Well, that depends on what kind of person you are but I am here to give you a few tips along the way. Having a busy parenting and work life, I think I can give you some ideas to get you started.

Many think that our homes are just as much the stress inducers as