Bernadette Indira Persaud (born 1946) is a
Guyanese painter. She is a graduate of the
University of Guyana
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and of the
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in
Georgetown.
Her style is
expressionistic
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, and bears some resemblance to the work of
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Biography
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,
Wendy Nanan
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, and
Kenwyn Crichlow
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of
Trinidad and Tobago
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. Persaud has also written about art for numerous Guyanese publications.
In 1985 she won the Guyana National Visual Arts Competition. In 2012 she was inducted into the Caribbean Hall of Fame for Excellence.
in 2014 the National Gallery of Art in Guyana held a retrospective of her work.
References
Excerpt from an arts journalcontaining a curatorial statement by Persaud
*Veerle Poupeye. ''Caribbean Art''. London; Thames and Hudson; 1998.
1946 births
Living people
University of Guyana alumni
Guyanese women painters
20th-century Guyanese painters
21st-century Guyanese painters
20th-century women artists
21st-century women artists
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