Art Jamaica

National Biennial IV – December 19, 2010 to March 2011

The National Gallery of Jamaica has begun preparations for Jamaica’s premier national art exhibition, the 2010 National Biennial, which will open on December 19, 2010. In 2004, the National Biennial succeeded the National Gallery of Jamaica’s Annual National Exhibition which had been held annually since 1977. In its current form, the National Biennial consists of [...]

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Gleaner Writer’s Daughters Explore Art At The Institute Of Jamaica

Feature in today’s Sunday Gleaner … Gleaner write Mel Cooke’s daughters explore art at the Institute of Jamaica, starting first with the Art in Schools exhibit. The exhibit presents the best of the art from high schools this year and is organised by the institution. It takes a little time to get to the top [...]

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Seya Parboosingh Art For Sale

The painter and poet, Seya Parboosingh (née Samila Joseph), passed away recently at the age of 85, and now her family has handed more than 500 pieces of her work to local galleries for sale … more than 100 of her signed paintings will be exhibited for sale at the Island Art and Framing gallery [...]

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A Belizean Artist’s Dudus Chronicles

Today’s Sunday Gleaner has a feature on Belizean artist Hubert Neil and his ‘Dudus Chronicles’ … art depicting the Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke saga that unfolded in May, 2010, and all the tension, violence and drama it created not only in Kingston, but across the island. The Dudus Chronicles, an exhibition of Neil’s work, opened last [...]

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Artist Profile – Kimberley Kaye

Today’s Sunday Observer, has a feature on Kimberley Kaye. A learned painter and sculptor in her late-20s, Kaye has creativity coursing through her veins, what with a family that’s talented. Recently married, she relocated to New York but will soon settle full-time in Florida, where she will be closer to home … more here

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Young Jamaican Artist Off To Art Camp In Spain

Kimani Beckford, final-year student at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts and one of the young artists responsible for the transformation of the corporate offices of the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC), created history by being the first Jamaican to represent the country at an art camp in Andorra, Spain … [...]

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RIP Seya Parboosingh

The painter and poet, Seya Parboosingh (née Samila Joseph), passed away yesterday – Friday, August 13. Born in 1925 of Lebanese descent, in Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA. She attended the University of Iowa, where she focused on creative writing. In 1957, she met and married Jamaican artist Karl Parboosingh in New York, and began to paint [...]

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Portland Art Gallery

The Portland Art Gallery, “with a touch of magic”, offers the finest artwork across the island. They are located at 2 West Palm Avenue in Port Antonio, Portland. The specialise in portrait, landscape, signs & murals. You may contact them at: 876-882-7732 | 876-847-7696 | 876-537-9861 | 876-469-8939 | 876-842-3382 | glenmark.bell@hotmail.com

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Olympia Gallery & The Art Centre Ltd.

Olympia Gallery and The Art Centre Ltd. are located at 202 Old Hope Road in Kingston. The complex was the brain child of the late A. D. Scott, a well known engineer and avid patron of the Arts. His dream was to provide a centre encompassing a gallery, an art supply store and an art [...]

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Digicel Mural Creating A Stir Downtown

Telecommunications giant Digicel is busy readying its soon-to-be headquarters on the scenic Kingston waterfront, and a colourful and captivating mural being created on the zinc fence surrounding the work site has been creating a stir in Downtown Kingston. “There’s nothing strange about a zinc fence being used to surround a construction site, but Digicel, a [...]

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