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List Of Jamaican Women Artists
This is a list of women artists who were born in Jamaica or whose artworks are closely associated with that country. A * Pearl Alcock (1934–2006), outsider artist * Esther Anderson (born 1946), filmmaker, photographer, actress B *Jacqueline Bishop, writer, visual artist and photographer * Hope Brooks (born 1944), painter C * Margaret Chen (born 1951), sculptor *Renée Cox (born 1960), artist, photographer, curator, feminist, now in New York E *Gloria Escoffery (1923–2002), painter, poet, critic F *Elsie Few (1909–1980), painter, art teacher G *Marguerite Primrose Gerrard (1922–1993), botanical artist *Lorna Goodison (born 1947), writer and painter M * Tamara Natalie Madden (1975–2017), Jamaican-American painter *Edna Manley (1900–1987), sculptor *Petrona Morrison (born 1954), sculptor P *Ebony Patterson (born 1981), mixed-media artist {{DEFAULTSORT:Jamaican women artists - Jamaican Artists An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creatin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamaica
Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola (the island containing the countries of Haiti and the Dominican Republic); the British Overseas Territory of the Cayman Islands lies some to the north-west. Originally inhabited by the indigenous Taíno peoples, the island came under Spanish rule following the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1494. Many of the indigenous people either were killed or died of diseases, after which the Spanish brought large numbers of African slaves to Jamaica as labourers. The island remained a possession of Spain until 1655, when England (later Great Britain) conquered it, renaming it ''Jamaica''. Under British colonial rule Jamaica became a leading sugar exporter, with a plantation economy dependent on the African slaves and later their des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorna Goodison
Lorna Gaye Goodison CD (born 1 August 1947)Deborah A. Ring, "Goodison, Lorna". Contemporary Black Biography 2009. Encyclopedia.com. 11 September 2013. is a n poet, essayist and memoirist, a leading West Indian writer of the generation born after . She divides her time between and |
Lists Of Women Artists By Nationality
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Jamaican Women Artists
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Ebony Patterson
Ebony G. Patterson (born 1981, Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican-born visual artist and educator. She is known for her large and colorful tapestries created out of various materials such as, glitter, sequins, fabric, toys, beads, faux flowers, jewelry, and other embellishments. Her "Gangstas for Life series" of dancehall portraits, and her garden-inspired installations. She has taught at the University of Virginia, Edna Manley College School of Visual and Performing Arts, and has been an Associate Professor in Painting and Mixed Media at the University of Kentucky since 2007. Her work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Jamaica, the United States, and abroad. Early life and education Patterson was born in 1981, Kingston, Jamaica. She studied painting at Edna Manley College of Visual and Performing Arts in Kingston, Jamaica and graduated in 2004. Patterson received an MFA degree in 2006 in printmaking and drawing from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petrona Morrison
Petrona Morrison (born 1954) is a Jamaican sculptor and media artist. Her work is largely inspired by African art; she uses found objects in assemblages that have both personal and broader social themes. A native of Manchester, Jamaica, Morrison was sketching from the time she was a child. She began training as an artist at McMaster University in Canada, graduating in 1976. In the mid-1980s she studied for her MFA at Howard University in Washington, DC, during which time she spent a year in Kenya. She divided her time between the United States and Jamaica before returning home for good in 1995; she continues to travel for residencies. She has taught at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts since 1988. She was artist-in-residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem. Her work may be seen in the collection of the National Gallery of Jamaica. She was awarded the Gold Musgrave Medal in 2014. In 2017 Morrison exhibited work in the Jamaica biennial. Selected exhibitions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edna Manley
Edna Swithenbank Manley, Jamaican Order of Merit, OM (28 February 1900 – 2 February 1987) is considered one of the most important artists and arts educators in Jamaica. She was known primarily as a sculptor although her oeuvre included significant drawings and paintings. Her work forms an important part of the National Gallery of Jamaica's permanent collection and can be viewed in other public institutions in Jamaica such as Bustamante Children's Hospital, the University of the West Indies, and the Kingston Parish Church. Her early training was in the British neoclassical tradition. In the early 1920s and 1930s she experimented with modernism eventually adapting it to her own aesthetic. Edna Manley was an early supporter of art education in Jamaica. In the 1940s, she organised and taught art classes at the Junior Centre of the Institute of Jamaica. These classes developed in a more formal setting with the establishment of the Jamaica School of Art and Craft in 1950. Jamaica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamara Natalie Madden
Tamara Natalie Madden (16 August 1975 – 4 November 2017) was a Jamaican-born painter and mixed-media artist working and living in the United States. Madden's paintings are allegories whose subjects are the people of the African diaspora. Early life Madden was born in St. Andrew, Jamaica. She moved to America from Jamaica permanently when she was an adolescent. She studied at several universities including the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. In 1997 Madden became ill with IgA nephropathy. While ill, Madden rediscovered art. Art helped her to heal emotionally, so she decided that it was important to pursue it further. She received a kidney transplant from her brother in 2001, and participated in her first art exhibition that same year. Her first solo exhibition was in 2004, and it garnered her an interview with the late James Auer of the ''Milwaukee Journal Sentinel''. Career After her solo exhibition in 2004, Madden relocated near Atlanta, Georgia. She met her mentors Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marguerite Primrose Gerrard
Marguerite Primrose Gerrard (29 July 1922, Jamaica – 11 August 1993, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, born Marguerite Primrose Tyndale-Biscoe, was a Jamaica-born American botanical artist. Life and family Marguerite Primrose Tyndale-Biscoe was born in Jamaica on 29 July 1922 in a family of Robert Stafford Tyndale-Biscoe and Marguerite Eliza Wilson. In 1948 she married James Herbert Gerrard, taking Gerrard as her married name. They had a son, James Herbert Gerrard the Younger (1954-1982). Gerrard died on 11 August 1993 and is buried in the United States at Arlington Cemetery in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania. Art Marguerite Primrose Gerrard worked in techniques of botanical watercolour, tempera, and gouache. Her botanical watercolours and drawings are included to the Catalogue of the Botanical Art Collection at the Hunt Institute The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation (HIBD), dedicated as the Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt Botanical Library in 1961, is a research division of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pearl Alcock
Pearl Alcock (1934 Jamaica – 2006, London, England) was a club owner and artist, best known as a British outsider artist. Life and work Alcock moved to the UK from Jamaica at the age of 25, abandoning her marriage in Jamaica. The shop, the bar and the cafe on Railton Road First finding work as a maid in Leeds, by the 1970s she had opened a dress shop at 103 Railton Road in Brixton and underneath it created an illegal shebeen, popular with the local gay community. She herself was known to be bisexual. After the first Brixton uprising reduced the amount of customers to her shop she shut it down and opened a cafe at 105 Railton Road. The 1985 Brixton uprising brought more financial hardship culminating to a period of the cafe running by candle light as the electricity was shut off. Art career Pearl’s journey with art began when she was unable to afford a birthday card for a friend so she drew one. Alcock described this realization of her knack for drawing: ''“I went ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elsie Few
Elsie Evelyn Few, (4 February 1909 – 17 December 1980) was a Jamaican-born artist, who had a long career in Britain and was associated with the Euston Road School. Throughout her career Few produced oil paintings of landscapes but later in her life began using collage techniques to create abstract designs. Biography Few was born in Kingston, Jamaica. She moved to London to study at the Slade School of Art and the Bartlett School of Architecture from 1929 and 1931, before travelling and studying throughout Europe. Few met and worked with artists from the Euston Road School. In 1937 she married Claude Rogers, one of the founding members of the School and together they, along with Victor Pasmore held a joint exhibition at the Burnett Webster Gallery in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1936. Shortly afterwards, Few had her first solo exhibition at the same gallery. Few was elected a member of the London Group in 1943 and from 1945 until 1948 worked for Chatto & Windus as an art editor. In 194 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gloria Escoffery
Gloria Escoffery OD (22 December 1923 – 24 April 2002) was a Jamaican painter, poet and art critic active in the 1940s and 1950s. Biography Born in Gayle, Saint Mary Parish, Jamaica, the youngest of three children of Dr. William T. Escoffery, medical officer, and his wife Sylvia, Escoffery attended St Hilda's High School, Brown's Town. In 1942 she won the Island Scholarship and went to McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and subsequently studied in England at the Slade School of Fine Arts (1950–52), and the University of the West Indies's School of Education. Having held her first solo exhibition in Kingston in 1944, Escoffery exhibited extensively in Jamaica and elsewhere. Her works feature in many public and private collections. In 1977 she was awarded the Order of Distinction and the Silver Musgrave Medal from the Institute of Jamaica in 1985. Publications * ''Landscape in the Making'' (a pamphlet, 1976) * ''Loggerhead'' (Sandberry Press, 1988) * ''Mothe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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