Brent Malone

Richard Brent Malone (1941 – February 5, 2004) was a Bahamian photorealist painter and gallery owner.

A native of Nassau, Malone began his career as a potter, working as an apprentice at the Bahamian branch of the Chelsea Pottery. He had previously studied at Don Russell's Academy of Fine Arts, and would later travel to England for further study, planning to attend Ravens Bourne College to gain teaching credentials. He also studied at the Bechenham School of Art.

In 1964 Malone was invited by Sir Harold Christie to return to Nassau to become the director of a new incarnation of the Chelsea Pottery. Called the Bahamian Pottery, it opened in 1964 but soon closed; nevertheless, the experience helped Malone in his later work as a gallery owner. He owned a number of galleries throughout his life, including the Loft Gallery, Matinee Gallery, Temple Gallery, and Marlborough Antiques; all served as important exhibition spaces for young Bahamian artists, whose work Malone supported for much of his career. With Antonius Roberts, Max Taylor, Stan Burnside, Jackson Burnside and John Beadle, he founded, in 1991, the group B.-C.A.U.S.E, dedicated to the promotion of Bahamian art. Malone was also a supporter of the Junkanoo festivities, and depicted them in many of his paintings. Though basically photorealistic, his style contained elements of surrealism as well.

Malone died of a heart attack in a Nassau hospital in 2004.

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