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ART:Jamaica
http://www.artjamaica.blogspot.com
An open forum about contemporary art in Jamaica
Resource for teachers, students, interested persons etc. Random reviews, interviews, musings, debates, thesis etc.
Recent Posts
DEFINING DIGITAL part 1
This season Disney launched The Princess and the Frog(img. 1) with much hype. The fact that this was going to be the first African-American Disney Princess caused the media to take notice and was Disney’s main press kit. Another fact surrounding it...
Exhibition Billboard Project
Exhibition Billboard can be found here on Facebook and an interview with one of its founders, artist, Camille Chedda follows belowWhat is Exhibition Billboard and what is the idea/ aim behind it? Exhibition Billboard Jamaica is a facebook group I cr...
Annalee Davis: ON THE MAP
Annalee Davis, experienced fine artist, activist, designer tells us about a recent project, ON THE MAP, a documentary film project. For artists who are interested in venturing into documentary filmmaking and some activist projects, Davis sets an ex...
Shaving Bob Marley and giving you the finger.
Yuli Kande's (寒出 優里) works from Kyoto Current Living in Kingston, made me realise many things. One of which is that Bob Marley is one of the nation's most imaged persons in public spaces. Visiting Kyoto Current a couple weeks ago at Kyoto M...
VISUAL ACTIVISM: Phillip Rhoden\'s viewpoint
concept for "High school Drop out"Phillip Rhoden was among the recent group of final year students mounting their final exhbition at The Edna Manley College. His body of work was pointed out to me as making a particularly individual statement about c...
Under the Sea
Journeyman Pictures has released a film showing the under water sculptures of UK artist Jason de Caires Taylor. Haunting and surprising but it mostly puts me in mind of what Laura Facey's sculptures like 'Redemption Song' might look like if Kingston ...
