John Beadle (1964 - 2024) was a painter, sculptor, and lifelong Junkanooer born in Nassau to Jamaican-Bahamian parents, combined traditional techniques with the found materials of Junkanoo —cardboard, wood, and salvaged objects—to create relief monuments and striking sculptural works. He addressed social issues, from migration to states of insecurity, in his work. He played a formative role across different artistic communities, having a central role in several artistic collectives, and paved the way for Munroe’s generation.

Lavar Munroe is an interdisciplinary artist from Grants Town, Nassau, works across mixed-media painting, cardboard sculpture, and drawing. Represented by Monique Meloche Gallery (Chicago) and Larkin Durey (London), Munroe’s work blends spirituality, mythology, and history to create a visual language steeped in African diasporic symbolism and cultural imagination. His mixed-media practice combines paint, airbrush, collage, ceramic, glass, feathers, cardboard, and other sacred objects to explore mythology, spirituality, and identity.