the end of the month to promote the arts around the Island.

Ms Robinson, who has worked at the gallery at the City Hall in Hamilton for six years, said she had resigned following mutual agreement between herself and management.

"It is a mutual thing,'' she said.

"The gallery is doing some re-organisation and I have been here for six years and it's time to go on and do something different.

"There has been so much happening in Bermuda with the arts and some of the ideas I have had would have been exciting to do. I think people are ready to take some of them on.

"I would like to see more public art and a greater emphasis on cultural tourism -- that is what I hope to promote.'' Ms Robinson said she hoped to leave by the end of November, but her plans to go it alone were still in the early stages.

She is not Bermudian, so must apply to Immigration to change her employment.

The senior curator added: "I'm quite excited about the future. I have been involved in different projects around the Island, but I can't do curating as well as these other things, and do a good job at everything.

"If I was going to leave then this was the best time to do it because the current exhibition (Made in Bermuda) needs just a bit of fine tuning, and then the next two shows have their own curators.

"However, I will still be very much heavily involved in the arts around Bermuda, so will hopefully have close ties with the gallery.

"Laura and I have worked well together.''