Gram Bella's is the dreaming of Kerri-Anne Chisholm and her immediate family. Birthed through community labour, mothered in active listening and research, the project space is neither fully private nor conventionally public, neither entirely exhibition site nor exclusively a social gathering place, neither formal arts institution nor domestic space. It functions a space for dreaming, listening, caring, gathering, constructing knowledges, navigating, and simply being.Â
Kerri-Anne Chisholm is a Caribbean cultural practitioner, social justice activist, and artist. Raised in the Cayman Islands, her deep ancestral ties to Jamaica, Cuba and Scotland inform her views on multicultural Caribbean identity, cultural production, and postcoloniality. Her creative practices explore human connection as a means of mediating social and personal identities using photography, curating, and sculpture.
She holds a BA in Fine Art and MA in Museums, Galleries and Contemporary Culture, and has developed exhibitions as a curator and consultant at the National Gallery of the Cayman Islands, the University of Oxford (UK), Tate Modern (UK), and community projects within England and the Caribbean.
Chisholm is currently finalising her PhD research at the University of Reading, examining the Caribbean yard space as counterpart to traditional exhibition spaces, and how these sites intuitively foster identity negotiation, creativity, community dialogue and cohesion, and provide platforms for infra-political resistance.