Suzie Wong Presents- The Caribbean, Seen.

David Scott will deliver the lecture entitled "Between Revolution and Repair: Walter Rodney's 'How Europe Underdeveloped Africa' in a Caribbean Intellectual Tradition." This talk is hosted by the University of Ghana and the Institute of African Studies.

The event is open to the public.

Thursday, 7 March at 12:00 GMT
Zoom: https://bitly.ws/3cYGm
Meeting ID: 820 3433 5357
Passcode: 479336

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NLS has EXTENDED the OPEN CALL, accepting submissions for the 2023/2024 Curatorial and Art Writing Fellowship to September 30, 2023.

The Curatorial & Art Writing Fellowship is a 5-month long intensive programme intended to support emerging writers and curators based in the Caribbean with the outcome of developing regional curatorial and writing talent here. One early career fellow will be selected per year to work with a professional curatorial mentor in the development of the fellow’s project.

The Curatorial & Art Writing Fellowship awards a work stipend of JMD $300,000, professional development from an experienced mentor, access to Creative Sounds audio recording studio for podcast recording, and a project space for the final project ex*****on and public talks.

NSU Art Museum Explores Haitian Art in "Cosmic Mirrors" "Cosmic Mirrors" at NSU Art Museum takes an expansive view of Haitian art from the museum's collection, ranging from historical paintings from the revolutionary period to newer works.

This Friday at Kingston Creative Hub!

Join us for 's 'Windrush Portraits', a transatlantic public art-exchange project, for our public artist presentation and talk with artists Michael Elliott, Jamaica and Mary Evans, UK.

Don't miss this educational and thought-leading event on Friday, July 14th, from 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm at the .

Discover the powerful stories behind their work, gain insights into their creative processes and learn more about the project's intentions. Witness and be part of this unique cultural exchange and immerse yourself in the rich history of Windrush heritage.

Liberty Hall presents Summer Arts 2023! July 10 – August 4, 2023

Garvey’s quote will guide this year’s programme: “A people without knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture is like a tree without roots.” The theme, therefore, is “Exploring the Motherland”. The focus will be on African artwork, dance, music, storytelling/elocution, and history; sessions will be tailored for students ages 7-17.
Liberty Hall: The Legacy of Marcus Garvey

For details, contact us at (876) 948-8639/40 for more information.

Meet emerging visual artist Christopher Hanson, currently showing works with us for the

Born in Wolverhampton in 1980, Christopher has had an interest in drawing and painting since he was a small child.

Moving away from home and attending the University of the west of England in Bristol for a degree in Fine Art. Whilst here Christopher was exposed to the conceptual and contemporary art which focused less on art technique and more on art ideas.

After graduating Christopher started studying full time at a private atelier that focused on teaching its students the methods and techniques of the old Masters.

After four years studying Christopher set up a studio in South London and set about teaching art classes and taking commissions. He decided to concentrate on a body of work focusing on mothers and children.

Having been raised for most of his childhood by a single mother it is a subject that was easy to express. While exploring this theme, the focus gradually changed. His work became more ethereal and spiritual with a focus of the human body and the energy within it.

Master Intuitive Jamaican artist and spiritual leader Everald Brown is our highlight today!

‘A member of the Ethiopian (Coptic) Orthodox Church, Brown’s various mediums of expression —painting, carving, and singing— were means of communicating spiritual visions to his brethren, as well as prayerful desires to the Almighty. An active Rastafarian, Brother Everald, his wife, and son, shared religious visions through the use of meditation and cannabis. Reggae music also served as a call to consciousness regarding the integration of social justice and spiritual fulfillment in Brown’s ministry.

Brown went by the name “Brother Everald” and as such in the early 1960s he established The Assembly of the Living, a mission of the Ethiopian (Coptic) Orthodox church, where the practices of Rastafarianism were carried out. The church was located at 82 1/2 Spanish Town Road in West Kingston until 1973, when the violent socio-political climate forced him to move with his family to Murray Mount in the St. Ann Mountains, not far from where he was born. With his wife “Sister Jenny” and their son Clinton, who was also a painter, “Brother Everald” shared his meditative and visionary experiences. The iconography and narrative within his art were grounded in such visions. Clinton also assisted his father in the preaching ministry at The Assembly of the Living. “Brother Everald’s” artistic production consisted of paintings of his religious visions, carved musical instruments, and wood carvings where totemic shapes or “ladders” consisting of figures, one on top of the other, are prevalent. Curator José Gómez Sicre included his work in five group exhibitions at OAS headquarters starting in 1972. Brown died unexpectedly while visiting family in New York in 2003. Brown’s work was included in a variety of important exhibitions of Jamaican art, both at home and throughout the Western hemisphere. In 2004 the National Gallery of Jamaica in Kingston opened the exhibition The Rainbow Valley: Everald Brown, A Retrospective.’

We have ‘The Bertha Room’ by Roberta Stoddart, an online exhibition, currently on our website and as a Viewing Room on , are proud to invite you to view a full body of Roberta’s work around Bertha for the past 30 years. Link in bio to view!

We are also honoured to include an in depth, sharp and insightful essay on this series by Isis Semaj-Hall .writer, an excerpt of which we will use here to give a sense of Bertha’s significance and context.

‘Rhys’s re-characterized Bertha becomes the vehicle through which Stoddart can investigate the dark space of loneliness and the dark emotional state that surfaces when an identity is broken by colonialism. Laid bare across a total of fourteen distinct paintings, each depicting a sullen-expressioned Bertha in a different anti-tropical setting, Stoddart upends and makes visible the Caribbean’s colonial underside. In this way, The Bertha Room casts a flood of bright moonlight on what was once in the shadows. Stoddart’s work exposes the inky dark of night that we were meant to forget and hide away. These are paintings meant to be seen, displayed, and discussed in the open and in the light. They reveal the hurt that Rhys’s Bertha – and all of us of the Caribbean -- dam behind wide eyes and broken smiles. The Bertha Room pieces reveal the hurt that Brontë’s Rochester – like all exploiters and users of the Caribbean -- try to conceal behind selfish lies and behind figurative and literal attic doors.’

Check the link in our bio to see the latest offering of available works in the Jamaican secondary art market. Early works by Edna Manley, Christopher Gonzalez, Gene Pearson, David Boxer and more, enjoy the viewing of works held in private collection!

Africa's New Museums - Théodore Monod Art Museum in Dakar - Watch the full documentary | ARTE in English The Théodore Monod Art Museum in Dakar was founded in 1938 when Senegal was a French colony. Its ethnological collections were originally amassed to satisfy European colonialists curiosity for Western African culture. How can this African heritage be decolonised?

Daniel R. Quiles on “Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s–Today” Curated by Carla Acevedo-YatesAT THE MIDPOINT of “Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s–Today,” there appears, curiously enough, a Filipino artist: David Medalla, whose signature Cloud Canyons, 1963–2014, oozes wormlike strands of soap bubbles from vertical Perspex tubes. By po...

Louis Vuitton in Trouble Over Joan Mitchell Works in New Ad The artist's estate sent a cease and desist order to the fashion company for its inclusion of paintings by the artist in a recent ad campaign.

Join us at 7pm at the Innovation room, AC hotel in Kingston, next Sunday 26th February for a screening of ‘Denzil’s Dance’ and artist talk with Grenadian/UK artist Denzil Forrester!

Denzil’s Dance (30 min, dir. Julian Henriques) takes Forrester to Jamaica for the first time to sketch in the dancehalls. The vibes of Kingston Dub Club, Uptown Mondays and Weddy Weddy Wednesdays that Forrester captures in his sketches are also caught by the camera. Through his method of gesture drawing Forrester develops a dynamic language to express the musical performance of the sound system session as a composition of texture, colour, light, line and perspective. In the film Forrester soaks up new inspiration for his painting enjoying every moment of Kingston’s ever energetic dancehall scene.

Since the 1980s Forrester has been painting the vibrant energies of London’s reggae clubs and was a leading contributor to the Caribbean Arts Movement in the UK. With a major retrospective curated by Peter Doig and representation from the Stephen Friedman, one of London’s most respected galleries. Forrester participates in the 58th Carnegie International Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania this year. He has solo exhibitions at Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri and Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida in 2023. These will run alongside a solo show at Stephen Friedman Gallery, London in March 2023, bringing together new paintings with a survey of works on paper from the past forty years.

Limited seating/ first come first seated! To reserve a seat pls RSVP [email protected]

Check out ‘Hybridization’ at Creativ space downtown. Curated by Katrina Coombs and funded by CHASE, it’s the final show in a three exhibition series. Important work being done in Jamaica 🔥🔥🔥

I’m very happy to be working with as a Consultant and Lead Project Manager for ‘Windrush Portraits’. This project is a transatlantic artist collaboration with Michael Elliot (Jamaica) and Mary Evans (UK), in partnership with John Hansard Gallery, UK, commemorating the Windrush Generation and giving voice to the subsequent Windrush scandal in the UK. Each artist will be showing work from their individual bodies of work, the ‘Windrush Series’ and ‘Please Do Not Bend’ respectively.
Register for an online talk with visual artists Michael Elliott (Jamaica) and Mary Evans (UK) at 1pm EST this coming Monday 1st February to learn more about ‘Windrush Portraits' and the artists' practice and this transatlantic collaboration! Link in bio to register.

Launching this Wednesday 1st February for Black History Month, ‘Windrush Portraits’ will broadcast the first stage of a nationwide public art exhibition and transform notions around the historically ‘permanent’ nature of art intended for public consumption, and engage audiences nationwide with digital broadcast of these visual conversations, about Windrush on either side of the Atlantic.
Windrush Portraits second stage will be staging in October 2023 in both Jamaica and the UK.