““In These Hands” is a representation of Harris’s male figure derived from the complex regard of the male body in society and more specifically the body of the black male in art. Harris’s male figure assumes a generalized signification of an exemplary young man. He is offered as a standard bearer, a young king; his radiance emanates from his signified passion. It is an emblematic male figure found in many paintings… “In These Hands” is on the threshold of sublime achievement,” Kenwyn Crichlow

Carlisle Harris was born in 1945 in Pointe-a-Pierre and grew up in Forest Reserve, Fyzabad. A past student of St. Stephen’s College, he went on to complete his Masters degree in Fine Arts at Howard University in Washington D.C., USA. During his time abroad, and even after, Washington D.C. was a focal point of the Civil Rights revolution in America. When he returned in 1973, Trinidad and Tobago was not the same place he had left – the people, their attitudes and even the culture had changed.

Harris was a member of the steering committee of the Centre for Creative and Festival Arts. His paintings have been on display since the 1970s at exhibitions in Trinidad, Barbados, Cuba, Martinique as well as, USA, Canada and Nigeria.