In the space @ Y Art Gallery, Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago.
From Tacarigua to John Donaldson Technical Institute to UWI to Ontario College of Art and Design. From Jewellery to Visual Art to Installation Art… “My perception of visual art has evolved towards a performative act-tion within the political socio-economic life of the urban, the rural. A kind of schizophrenia within aesthetics, as I rethink the value of the studio and how the practice engages its space. There is a conscious consideration of art for tomorrow” – Dean Arlen
Kenywyn Crichlow is a practicing artist who has participated in solo exhibitions in Trinidad and Tobago and internationally from 1981 to present. Mr. Crichlow has taught at every level of the Education system in Trinidad and Tobago; primary and secondary schools, Teachers College and at the University of the West Indies. Kenwyn is also a key researcher on the history of visual arts in the Caribbean.
His paintings explore narratives of our culture and identity through vibrant, colourful compositions.
They seek to capture the full range of our experiences, and open us to the images that reside deep in the heart.
Born 1963, Eddie Bowen studied at Croydon College, UK from 1981-1985. He has since been living and working in Trinidad, often letting his environment in San Souci, be his muse.
Christopher Cozier is an artist, living and working in Trinidad and a co-director of Alice Yard, a collective, which will be participating in Documenta 15.
He was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2004 and is a Prince Claus Award laureate, 2013.
Through his notebook drawings to installations derived from recorded staged actions, Cozier investigates how Caribbean historical and current experiences can inform understandings of the wider contemporary world.
Exhibitions include the 5th & 7th Havana Biennials, Infinite Island, The Brooklyn Museum, (2007) Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic (2010), TATE Liverpool, Entanglements at the Broad Museum, Michigan 2015. Relational Undercurrents at MOLAA. L.A. (2017) and The Sea is History, Historiskmuseum, Oslo, 2019. Cozier participated in the public program of 10th Berlin Biennial, 2018, exhibited in the 14th Sharjah Biennial in 2019 , the 11th Liverpool Biennial in 2021, Industrial Art Biennial, Croatia, 2020 and currently in Más Allá, el Mar Canta (Beyond, the Sea Sings) at the Times Art Center, Berlin, as well as Fragments of Epic Memory at the AGO ( Art Gallery of Ontario) and Experiences of Oil at the Stavanger Museum, Norway.
Christopher Cozier
2003 .
From the exhibition-
Taking Note: WORKING DRAWINGS {2000-2012}
Mixed Media on Paper .
59 x 60” .
“My work aims to transform conventional readings of where I am from – or about what I am supposed to be concerned. How do my experiences coming from a place like the Caribbean, and now, moving through others, shape how I see the world?
Investigating the relationship between the contemporary and historical conditions, I often enlist mundane everyday objects, along the way, seeking to transform them into signs/vocabularies to generate dialogues across geographies, histories and contemporary experiences. From my on-going personal notebook drawings – making notes or taking note – I develop public actions trying to figure diverse ways of making and conveying work or of creating an experience or an awareness.”
– Christopher Cozier
Roberta Stoddart’s paintings have been described as brave, dense, bold, thoroughly executed, and deeply felt. Intense and disturbing, they stimulate questions about our collective prejudices, our psychological spaces, and our notions of belonging. Stoddart has published two books, Seamless Spaces (2000) and TheStoryteller (2007), produced seven solo exhibitions, and participated in important local, regional, and international group shows. She is the recipient of a Peoples’ Choice prize in France and has exhibited at the Werner Gallery, Berlin, Germany. Born in Jamaica, she lives and works in Trinidad.
