After the Island: Caribbean Canadian Ceramics

October 9, 2026 – April 25, 2027. Curated by Joséphine Denis (BAND) and Dr. Sequoia Miller (the Gardiner Museum)

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BAND Gallery (Black Artists’ Networks in Dialogue) and the Gardiner Museum co-present After the Island: Caribbean Canadian Ceramics, bringing together four Canadian artists with roots in the Caribbean, PJ Anderson, Eddy Firmin, Manuel Mathieu, and Sharon Norwood.

This exhibition considers how artists of the Caribbean diaspora are embracing the medium of ceramics to explore themes of knowledge transfer and the liberatory potential of the clandestine. Through existing and newly commissioned works PJ Anderson, Eddy Firmin, Manuel Mathieu, and Sharon Norwood explore questions of identity, belonging, memory, and cultural continuity through the language of clay.

After the Island is a collaboration between Black Artists’ Networks in Dialogue (BAND) ,the Gardiner Museum, and the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), modelling a landmark curatorial partnership exploring contemporary ceramic practices rooted in Caribbean histories, memory, and cultural transformation. Presented across two exhibitions and two cities—Toronto and San Francisco—this collaboration brings together artists whose work examines migration, ornament, labour, ancestry, and the enduring impact of Caribbean cultural traditions across generations and geographies.