Caribbean Artists A-Z
View my articles about Caribbean and Diaspora Artists. Research over 100 artists, their sites and thumbnails of their art work in alphabetical order. Click on artists names for links to the full story or artists' websites or watch videos. Students, cite this material with appropriate references guided by copyright. 'Fair use' allows you to use images in thumbnail size only.
Born in England to parents of Jamaican origin, Joy Gregory’s work has been influenced by a combination of race, gender and aesthetics. She attended the Royal College of Art where she was awarded a Masters in Photography in 1986. Gregory has exhibited internationally, including in Cape Town, South Africa where she first showed her series Lost Histories, reflecting on colonization and its effects on culture and self-image. In 2002, Gregory…
Annie Hamilton’s career as an artist began soon after graduating. Her early works were concerned with the environment and to a lesser extent personal issues. She explored the use of the sewing machine as a drawing tool, and used it to create interesting features in her work. Images were executed in mixed media using machine embroidery, dying and applique. Her stitches…
This Armenian born artist first came to Jamaica in the 1929 and lived here with some interruptions until 1944. Originally a painter, during the thirties he became friends with the sculptor Edna Manley and together their works reflected the nationalist preoccupations of that time focusing on the beauty of the black physiognomy in a primitivising and exoticising style. Koren became a regular house-guest at the Manley’s home initially at Bedford Park and then in Drumblair, upper St Andrew.…
Norma Rodney Harrack’s association with the clay goes back some two and a half decades. Her work reflects what she calls the ‘classical contemporary’. Towards this end she seeks to demonstrate the consistent investigation of form; a pursuit more recently kindled by her desire to examine traditional vesel forms of Jamaica’s earliest …
Khepera Oluyia's work is a powerful mix of the collective and the personal. Through her painting she makes ambitious statements about the ideological systems that seduce, confine and manipulate us in the black diaspora. She challenges these belief systems and provides new models for our consideration and commitment.Jamaica's understanding of political blackness and skin colour are two of her most serious concerns. These are themes she has been exploring since her art school years, combining…
Albert Huie always claimed he was born to be an artist. His mother and grandmother who raised him worried about his strange reserved personality and the fact that he spent so much time observing nature or questioning his station in life. Brought up in a strong matriarchal and conservative setting that emphasized discipline and religion, Huie was not encouraged to ponder on the fact that his father, then living in Cuba, had named him Alphonso after the then Cuban president, in fact his…
The contradiction in Nakazzi’s work is her desire to move away from materiality towards a greater sense of spirituality, and to do this, she sets up a tension between the object and the space around it. Even as she is constructing her characteristically life size figures, she is simultaneously stripping away their body parts, and representing the body in a fragmentary way that hints at the essence of humanity’s flesh and blood forms. Her use of driftwood, twigs, tree bark and other natural…
Coming from fairly humble beginnings, Eugene Hyde was born in Cooper’s Hill, Portland and raised by his mother Ivy Larman, stepfather and grandmother. His father John Hyde, had died when he was a boy, but it is possible that it was from his father - a photographer - that Hyde nurtured an early desire to become a commercial artist. After his father’s death in 1944, the family moved to Spanish Town where Eugene attended Beckford and Smith’s (now St Jago High School).
Hyde began his…