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Art and Craft
The People's
Canvas
by Suzanne Bhagan
Artist: Glen Martin
Although many locals regard the
Queen’s Park Oval as the place
for cricket, it is now also a place
for art. The Oval is now home to
the People’s Canvas, arguably
the country’s newest tourist
attraction.
Launched in 2008, this art exhibition features
larger-than-life reproductions of work done by
both reputable and promising local visual artists.
Intensely colourful masterpieces blaze from the
Oval’s perimeter walls along Tragarete Road,
Elizabeth Street, St. Clair Avenue and Havelock
Street in uptown Port of Spain. The former
vanilla walls are now saturated with rich blues,
reds, golds and greens. No reproduction is alike
as each reflects its artist’s unique perspective of
T&T’s people, places and things.
The People’s Canvas, now the country’s largest
public outdoor art gallery, can be viewed any
day, any time.
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