Nathan Eugene Carson

Legends Live On, 2024
mixed media on wood, 40″ x 60″

Nathan Eugene Carson’s mural, Legends Live On, pays homage to the legacy of dubpoet Klyde Broox, a long time Red Tree member. Klyde initiated the Creative Commons Wall in the parkette along the Pipeline Trail between Tragina and Weir. Both Nathan and Klyde spent time during the global pandemic teaching art, poetry, and community, and the first mural evolved from a series of workshops they led in collaboration with the Afro-Canadian Caribbean Association of Hamilton (ACCA).  Nathan’s new billboard symbolizes the many souls Klyde taught and inspired throughout the years.

Born in Delveland, Westmoreland, Jamaica on June 29, 1957, Klyde lived and worked in Hamilton from 1990 until he transitioned and continued on his journey on January 21, 2024.  May he rest in power and peace. His legend and work live on.  

Nathan Eugene Carson (b. 1980, lives and works in Hamilton, Ontario) received a BFA from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 2005. His drawings and paintings have since been shown at Verso Gallery, Lennox Contemporary, Gallery One, and the Drake Hotel in Toronto. Carson’s work was also featured during the AGO First Thursdays in partnership with the RBC Emerging Artists Projects and StreetARToronto. In 2016, he was part of an exhibition titled Ponto , the first of several held at Oswald Gallery, in Hamilton , other group exhibitions include Free Fall (2016) and Worked Over (2017), both at Oswald Gallery, and 100 Paintings (2019) at The Carnegie Gallery, Dundas, Ontario, Cut From The Same Cloth (2021) at the Power Plant Toronto, Ontario . His most recent solo exhibition was an Art residency at The Art Gallery of Hamilton titled Black Carnival (2023).