Right, my name is Heather Dawn Scott and I'm an artist, I'm a Barbadian and this is my eighth protest. Most of them have been at Block A because that was the building that was promised for the Barbados National Art Gallery and they've had the keys for some time now and we've seen no progress. The previous one was at the Old Barbados Hospital grounds at Jamit's Lane and that got some attention because it was focal there at the traffic lights and I just felt that those had gone by quite quietly and I really wanted the Barbadian public to be aware that we have a national collection that belongs to the public and the collection is locked up in the dark, I'll just say they give us two images a week, not even, I think it's four images a month, maybe two images a week I'm not sure but very few little thumbnail pictures of the works and some of these works are massive of our best artists and historical works are locked up as well so we are tired now, the artist and I speak on behalf of all of the artists, I understand that there is space for you know your tourist art but there are artists that are leaving the island, they are going to other countries because that's where they're appreciated, they may live here but they're going abroad to have their shows and they set up studios elsewhere, some of them bring the work here but because we don't have a national art gallery there's no automatically display space for them to set up exhibitions and a national art gallery is not like one of these lovely little galleries like Zemekorn or the Foundry or like the one that just closed Brighton's store room and then that we are people like the artist alliance which is on Nika's small, she's been struggling to get the artist's work out there but she has to find venues so if we had a national art gallery we could have these shows and we need to have shows coming in from outside, not just Brighton's to live abroad, we need shows coming in from the region, from Africa, from South America, not just all the planes going north, north, north, north but we need to know what's going on within our sphere, so a national art gallery should have concurrent shows so you can have the national collection which is exquisite, they have fabulous work that's locked away and it could have, so from the national collection also more contemporary work which includes things like performance art and film and video and conceptual work, we don't have anywhere for this, blockage is a sweet little building but it's absolutely inadequate for a national art gallery and to take it further my fear is that the national art gallery may come to fruition although we've been waiting 66 years of promises, it may come to fruition but my terror is that they will use a building that is not big enough and that you can't hang things off the ceiling or that the walls are timbreed so that you only can do certain size works, we need a purpose building and we need the artists involved, the board exists, they have meetings, trust I know there are not many meetings of the board, there's only one artist, she may be wonderful but there is only one artist on that board and there are other people there who are not quite sure what they're doing, what their function within that board is, so what I'm saying is we have art on the island, more art should be coming in, we want to vitalise the artist and this is what the protest is about, so I wanted something colourful in the middle of town rather than what I've been doing which is a little more quiet and subtle, so I'm just hoping that we can leave this up for a little while and people will come and ask what it's about, the artist's ours, it's ours but it's locked away in the dark and we have no national art gallery, other islands have national art galleries, they're like six or seven islands within the region that have their own national art galleries.