International Artists Workshop - Artist Nikolai Noel (Trinidad)

Nikolai Noel was born in 1976 on the island of Trinidad in the West Indies. He sees being of mixed heritage as being an observer, not really belonging to groups and has found this to be an advantageous position for an artist interested in social and political occurrences.

As well as creating his own work, he has been an animator for commercial video production and been involved with design and production of Carnival bands.

Nikolai Noel (Trinidad)

Artist's Diary

As the Tanera Mor International Artists Workshop residency progresses in the first two weeks of June 2007, artists will use this web page to post work in progress, along with their thoughts about the residency. You can communicate with the artist by using the form at the foot of this page to leave your own feedback and questions.

Wednesday 13 June 2007

"The drowning" (Photographed by Mette Juul)

Everyone came out to meet him and watched him have a swim... got into a bit of difficulty and had to pull him out of the loch. He was hurt but did not let it show, we knew. we walked away with everyone and lagged behind (i was carrying him most of the way) until there was no one left, i turned around and took him back to the loch, and drowned him with a boat oar.
Wednesday 13th June

Monday 11 June 2007

Friday 8 June 2007

Nikolai in his work space

Sunday 3 June 2007

Nikolai (left) from Trinidad and Avhashoni (right) from South Africa, too busy to eat.

Blog comments...

2 Comments

hey Nikolai, You're in your element and my favorite country, the work looks potent and inspiring, good luck and look forward to seeing you when you come back.

Colin
colin Gill
20 June 2007

Nikolai,

your stuff looks good. Congratulations again and all of us in Trinidad are rooting for you. We look forward to reading about your work at Tanera.

J
Jaime
08 June 2007