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Natural Histories: Hope Brooks, Slavery Trilogy
Click to view slideshow. Hope Brooks’ Slavery Trilogy is a combination of three series: (from left to right) Kings and Princes, Backra Pickney and Trilogy. The work explores the history and development...
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Natural Histories: Shoshanna Weinberger
Shoshanna Weinberger – Collection of Strangefruit, gouache & mixed media on paper, 18 panels, ea. 51 x 42 cm Shoshanna Weinberger’s work takes beauty and sex appeal and turns them on their head....
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Natural Histories: Everald Brown
Everald Brown – Cotton Duppy Tree (1994), mixed media on board, Aaron and Marjorie Matalon Collection, NGJ The work of self-taught painter and sculptor Everald Brown is best understood in the context...
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Natural Histories: Hans Sloane
Click to view slideshow. The book A Voyage to the Islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica with the Natural History of the Herbs, and Trees, Four-footed Beasts, Fishes, Birds,...
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Natural Histories: Some Thoughts on John Dunkley
Our current Natural Histories exhibition includes John Dunkley’s “Back to Nature” (c1939) and this prompted the following reflection on Dunkley and his work. John Dunkley – Back to Nature (1939), mixed...
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Last Sundays: May 26, 2013
The National Gallery of Jamaica is pleased to present another edition of its Last Sundays programme on May 26, 2013 when we will again be open from 11 am to 4 pm, with free admission for all. This...
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Natural Histories: Some Notes on Maps
Click to view slideshow. Power comes from the map and it traverses the way maps are made. The key to this internal power is thus cartographic process. By this I mean the way maps are compiled and the...
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Natural Histories: Margaret Chen, Steppe IX
Margaret Chen – Steppe IX (1982-89), mixed media on plyboard, Collection NGJ Steppe IX is part of a larger series of 17 works by Margaret Chen. In her 1995 essay, Many Rivers Crossed for the catalogue...
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Natural Histories: Cecil Baugh, Egyptian Blue (1992)
Cecil Baugh – Egyptian Blue (1992), Earthenware, Collection: NGJ (Gift of Sonia Jones) The work of Cecil Baugh, Jamaica’s master potter, holds an important place in the history of Jamaican art. Though...
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Natural Histories: A Note on Cotton Trees and Jamaican Art
Click to view slideshow. TOM CRINGLE’S COTTON TREE: This Ceiba, or Silk Cotton, tree is of a type common to many parts of Jamaica. Its majestic spread of branches provides shade and shelter, and you...
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Coming Up: Art’iT Children’s Art Exhibition Opens on June 22
Click to view slideshow. The National Gallery of Jamaica presents the second edition of Art’ iT – a selection of artworks produced by a number of children who are participants in the Saturday Art Time...
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National Gallery to Host KOTE for its Last Sundays Programme on June 30
The National Gallery is partnering with the Kingston on the Edge urban arts festival in presenting its Last Sundays programme on June 30. As has now become customary every last Sunday of the month,...
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Natural Histories: Colin Garland
Colin Garland – In the Beautiful Caribbean (1974), oil on canvas, Collection: NGJ One of the theoretical pillars of the Natural Histories exhibition is our interest in how artists have utilised natural...
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Introducing Countryman (Dir: Dickie Jobson, 1982)
The NGJ is planning to develop a Caribbean film programme and, eventually also, collection and as our first steps in this direction, we have started integrating film screenings into our Last Sundays...
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COMING SOON: New Roots: 10 Emerging Artists (July 28-September 30, 2013)
(GIF by Ikem Smith)
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New Roots: 10 Emerging Artists (July 28-September 30, 2013)
Click to view slideshow. The NGJ’s next exhibition, New Roots: 10 Emerging Artists, will open on July 28 and features work by Deborah M. Carroll Anzinger, Varun Baker, Camille Chedda, Gisele Gardner,...
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New Roots: Deborah Anzinger
Deborah Anzinger – Mammary (2013), mixed media This is the first in a series of posts on the artists in our upcoming New Roots exhibition, which opens on July 28. Biography Deborah Anzinger has...
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New Roots: Varun Baker
Click to view slideshow. Here is the second in our series on the artists in the upcoming New Roots exhibition, which opens on July 28. Biography To hear him tell it, Varun Baker owes his photographic...
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New Roots: Camille Chedda
Camille Chedda – Untitled (Built-in Obsolescence series, 2011-12), mixed media on plastic bag Biography Camille Chedda was born in Manchester, Jamaica in 1985. She graduated from the Edna Manley...
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New Roots: Olivia McGilchrist
Click to view slideshow. Biography Born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1981 to a French mother and a Jamaican father and educated in France and the U.K. I moved back to Jamaica in 2011 after completing a...
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