NLS

23/02/2026

For four months, with donors, partners and the artist community we have raised USD 21,000 in relief, distributing seeds, saplings, groceries, school books, sanitary items, disaster relief items, and building materials to families who are still facing ongoing crisis.

Families are now able to reap crops they sowed from our earlier relief distributions, and while some public power lines have been restored many families are still homeless or living under expiring tarpaulin. We thank all community members who have weighed in to share their experiences, and contributed relief in goods and labour, helping to guide us towards cultural resilience.

Moving forward our efforts are directed to helping with rebuilding of the Flamstead Gardens Basic School and Maroon Town Basic School, as well as continued support for farmers and families.

23/02/2026

photo recap of the closing public talk for …and surely we’ll never die 🖤

21/01/2026

Thank you to our entire community for coming together and helping with ongoing recovery in all the ways.

05/01/2026

Join us on the final weekend of the current exhibition, ...and surely we’ll never die, for a public talk on Sunday, January 11, 2026 from 4 pm to 5:30 pm. Presented in partnership with Creative Sounds Limited.

Limited space is available. RSVP at [email protected].

Acknowledging the partnerships that have emerged through the organisation’s orientation towards socio-ecological development and resilience, the talk will address community experiences within the Sustainable Art Residency and Summer Camp as well as the current exhibition that has emerged from it.

Participating panelists include Kamala Davis (Visual Artist), Ammoy Smith (Visual Artist), Sonn Ngai (Visual Artist), Samuel Johnson (Farmer and Committee Member, Maroon Town Community Centre) and Susanne Fredricks (Gallerist and Founder, Suzie Wong Presents).

29/12/2025

Viewing hours this week are Tuesday December 30 and Friday January 2 from 10 am - 12:30 pm. No appointments needed in this window.

29/12/2025

18/12/2025

Thank you to everyone who came out to the opening of …and surely we’ll never die on Saturday. Viewing hours resume on December 28, by appointment. Have a peaceful and joyful holiday season.

14/12/2025

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Up until January 13. By appointment only via [email protected]

13/12/2025

See you soon! …and surely we’ll never die opens today at 4 pm.

13/12/2025

“Jonathan and his dog”, soil and charcoal on paper, student group work, New Local Space Sustainable Art Summer Camp.

Looking forward to seeing you at the opening of …and surely we’ll never die, a group exhibition of work from the Sustainable Art Summer Camp this year. Opens this Saturday from 4 - 8 pm. Free and open to the public, complimentary refreshments served. Proceeds purchase back to school supplies for children whose education has been severely impacted by the hurricane, and farm supplies for farmers to help with food recovery.

05/12/2025

New Local Space (NLS) is pleased to present the group exhibition ‘…and surely we’ll never die’ opening on Saturday, December 13.

‘…and surely we’ll never die’ presents the community work made this year in Maroon Town, St. James during the Sustainable Art Residency and Summer Camp during which New Local Space administered workshops to 35 students ages 4 to 15 years old in sustainable technologies and materials within  the local environment.

Featuring two dimensional and three dimensional works made of materials including natural fibres, recycled paper-based clay, recycled plastic bottles, local soils and salvaged charcoal, the exhibition highlights the prescient collective gesture made by the organisation and the artists featured in the show to work in harmony with the environment. Administered in the quiet summer before the first documented Category 5 storm to make landfall in the Atlantic Basin, yet publicly presented within Hurricane Melissa’s aftermath of socio-ecological and economic devastation, this exhibition invites the public to coconspire in creating a new normal in which we work with the environment and our collective survival and not against.

Proceeds will help to provide back-to-school supplies (bags, stationery and textbooks) and farm recovery items (seeds, suckers, growing medium and trays) for approximately 200 households.

The exhibition and NLS’ programming are made possible through partnership with Creative Sounds and the National Gallery of Jamaica, and in part with the support of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) and the financial contribution of the European Union (EU).

19/11/2025

Week 2 post Hurricane Melissa. November 15, 2025, Maroon Town and Flagstaff, St. James.

We appreciate the volunteers of artists, collectors, writers, neighbours, friends and families who have helped by packaging, driving, distributing, and documenting. thank you for the vivid and loving photos and audio you recorded on the third week of distribution. Kamala Davis special thank you for showing up as an art teacher at the Summer Camp and coming back as a relief volunteer after the devastation. We appreciate our on the ground partner in Kingston and community partners in Maroon Town and Flagstaff who helped to coordinate. To donors who have contributed through New Local Space via either PayPal or our fiscal sponsor AFJ, you are directly helping to get the community (farmers, children, shop keepers, mothers and fathers) get back on our feet. We are immensely grateful to you. Thank you. For anyone wanting to know the ways you can help directly or indirectly please email [email protected]