Caribbean Passion: Haiti 1804

Caribbean Passion: Haiti 1804 is a series of paintings about the struggle against slavery and colonialism on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean during the 18th and 19th centuries. The paintings portray key figures in the Haitian Revolution, including Toussaint and Suzanne L’Ouverture, Jean Jacques and Marie Claire Dessalines, and Sanite and Charles Belair.

The paintings were first shown in a 2004 solo exhibition at London’s Bettie Morton Gallery to mark 200 years since the people of Haiti declared independence from France. In 2005, the exhibition toured to the Art Exchange in Nottingham.

Works from the series have since been shown internationally, including at the Diaspora Pavilion for the 57th Venice Biennale, at 154: Contemporary African Art in New York, at the Independent Art Fair in New York, at the Usher Gallery in Lincoln and at Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge.

Paintings from the series are held in private collections in the UK and US.

For more about these artworks:

Philip K Kaisary, The Haitian revolution in the literary imagination

Richard Barbrook, Class Wargames: ludic subversion against spectacular capitalism

Mark Rappolt Kimathi Donkor: History Painting Remade