Published On:Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Transforming Spaces - the popular art bus tour that visits several art galleries over two days will take place this weekend. Patrons will visit nine spaces: Doongalik Studios Art Gallery at Village Road, Ladder Gallery at NPCC, New Providence Art & Antiques, Pink 'Un, Popop Studios, Post House Gallery, PRO Gallery at COB, StingraeStudio and The Hub. Each space will be specifically transformed for the occasion and patrons will experience a panoply of art forms and expression during the 5 hour Tour. They will have a chance to meet the artists over drinks and refreshments.

All buses will leave daily from the NAGB promptly at 10 am. Tickets are $30 and are on sale at the National Art Gallery, Doongalik Studios Village Road and the Ladder Gallery.

Here are the final two profiles of the spaces in the exhibit.

New Providence Art and Antiques

Lillian Blades will have her first major exhibit in Nassau in over twelve years. Entitled, "Reconnecting", the show will be held at New Providence Art & Antiques during Transforming Spaces 2010.

Lillian Blades was born in 1973 in Nassau, Bahamas. She received a BFA in Art from the Savannah College of Art and Design and an MFA from Georgia State University.

She also studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine and Caversham in KwaZulu Natal South Africa.

Her work has appeared in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States, The Bahamas, Trinidad, Germany, and south Africa. Her work has been commissioned for Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and The East Atlanta Library and is in the collection of the Birmingham Museum of Art and the National Art

Gallery of The Bahamas.

New Providence Art & Antiques specialises in both contemporary and historical art of the Bahamas, and just recently moved to a new location on East Street in downtown Nassau.