Ts Haskell, Trinbagonian Artist, Proud Caribbean Queer

       I was born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago, first coming to Canada for my BFA at YorkU in visual arts and staying further for my MFA at OCADU in the Interdisciplinary masters in Art, Media and Design. My education in ceramics has been self taught, adapting my childhood long obsession with sculpting oil, and polymer based clays in Trinidad to ceramics.

       My studio practice is based in ceramic sculpture, navigating issues of queerness, folklore, Trinidadian carnival, and intersectional selfhood. Utilizing clay as an intimate and immediate medium for capturing human gesture I seek to contemporize traditional elements of Carnival/Mas from my heritage in relation to the socio-political climates of today. Capturing the ephemeral qualities of mas in some small portion to expand notions of what Mas/Carnival can mean to various communities ranging from education, solidarity, and consolidation of community.