The eagerly anticipated Grenada Contemporary Exhibition returns for its 8th iteration, opening on Thursday, 30 October 2025, at Art House 473, from 6 pm to 7:30 pm.
Admission is free, welcoming the public to experience one of the southern Caribbean’s most enduring and dynamic platforms for visual art.
An outworking of Susan Mains Gallery, since its inception, Grenada Contemporary has become a benchmark for critical and creative engagement in the region. Over the years, 91 artists have exhibited under its banner — painters, sculptors, photographers, performance and mixed-media artists who have together shaped a living archive of Caribbean imagination.
This year’s exhibition — titled “Dreevay,” a Caribbean word evoking the act of wandering or moving along without a fixed path — dives into the idea that art happens in motion. It speaks to the way creativity often unfolds in transit, in the moment, when least expected. Dreevay captures the rhythm of life in the Caribbean: spontaneous, searching, alive with possibility. Curated as both a reflection and a movement, Dreevay celebrates the serendipity of art — its power to reveal meaning through chance encounters and evolving journeys. This edition features more than 25 participating artists, each contributing new works that speak to the currents of identity, ecology, movement of people, and belonging that define Caribbean life today.
Work of artist Susan Valentine. Photo: ArtHouse473
As an initiative rooted in the vision of independent curatorial practice and artist-led collaboration, Grenada Contemporary stands apart as both a national and regional event — an exhibition that resists the peripheries and insists on the Caribbean as a centre of artistic production and thought. Each edition has reflected the changing contours of Grenada’s creative landscape: from the emergence of new voices to the re-engagement of established practitioners whose work continues to push aesthetic and conceptual boundaries.
This year’s edition unfolds across diverse media — painting, video, installation, and photography — revealing the restless experimentation and hybrid sensibilities of Caribbean modernity. Art House 473 once again provides the perfect setting: a gallery space turned laboratory where the visual, the political, and the poetic converge.
On the following Saturday, 1 November, an artist talk is scheduled. Specially invited artist Russell Watson, from Barbados, will be one of the artists sharing his practice in photography and video art. This casual gathering is free and welcomes all from 4 pm to 5:30 pm.
In a global art world that often looks outward for validation, Grenada Contemporary remains a vital local act of self-definition — an exhibition that insists, year after year, that our small islands carry vast worlds within them.
Free and open to the public. Parking is at Lavo Lanes, and a shuttle is provided. For media inquiries or artist interviews, please contact [email protected].
Art House 473
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