Shane AquĆ¢rt
- Cayman
Shane AquĆ¢rt
- Cayman
Shane AquĆ¢rt, who signs his art āDreadyā, has a whimsical graphic style influenced by his rich mixture of cultural experiences: a Caribbean childhood, education at an English boarding school, a Canadian high school, and a US college. AquĆ¢rt has illustrated several publications, and his work has been extensively used in merchandising, commercial graphics, and interiors. His solo exhibition Cayman Panorama: Things That Exist Only in My Fading Memory was featured at the National Gallery of the Cayman Islands in 2013, and recently installed at the Owen Roberts International Airport as part of the NGCIās Art at the Airport project (2019). His work has featured in numerous NGCI exhibitions, including Metamorphoses (2014), tIDal Shift: Explorations of Identity in Contemporary Caymanian Art (2015), Upon the Seas (2017), and Cross Currents ā 1st Cayman Islands Biennial (2019).