The Cuban Connection

In 2014, an exhibition of contemporary Cuban art was held at Edith Cowan University's Spectrum Gallery in Perth, Western Australia.
The core of the exhibition was a collection of fine art prints purchased by West Australian art collectors Lloyd and Liz Horn, who had recently returned from travels in Cuba and who had come across the Taller Experimental de Grafica contemporary gallery in Havana.
The Horn's purchased several artworks from printmaker Norberto Marrero, an artist from the Taller Grafica's print studios and had them shipped back to Australia. Having shown them to ECU art curator Sue Starcken, an idea was formed that culminated in inviting Norberto and his wife Janette Brossard, also a printmaker, to hold workshops in Perth as part of ECU's art program.
The idea expanded further to include an exhibition of other contemporary Cuban printmakers from the Taller Grafica, which was shown concurrently with Norberto's and Janette's print workshops at ECU Mt Lawley campus' Spectrum Gallery as part of an ongoing international exchange.
A year later, with Janette and Norberto as coordinators on the Cuban end, a collection of mostly Indigenous Australian prints from ECU's art collection as well as from the Injalak Centre for Indigenous Art in the Northern Territory were invited to participate in an exhibition as part of Cuba's Festival of the Caribbean held in 2015.
This film is an unofficial record of that journey.
Huge thank you to Keving MacLeod for use of his music:
Comparsa
Modern Jazz Samba
CumbianNoFrills
Eternity
Sardana