Art Bytes
Nassau-born, London based artist Blue Curry has taken Paradise, his installation project for the Jamaica Biennial, into the heart of downtown Kingston. Curry is covering walls of three buildings with large posters of continuous seascapes.
 The National Gallery of Jamaica’s 50th Anniversary exhibition, Continuity, runs from June 30 to September 30th, 2024. Continuity revisits ten NGJ’s iconic exhibitions, including the Biennials of 2014, 2017 and 2022 and Jamaica Jamaica, (2020). |
 The Glasgow School of Art Exhibition in Scotland will present the work of the late photographer Sandra George until June 30th. Born to Jamaican parents, George spent the first seven years of her life here before migrating to Birmingham. Later she went to Edinburgh to live with her father. |
 A 97 year old Jamaican is featured in Migrant Stories, an exhibition at the Market Gallery in Toronto, Canada. Lloyd Lindo, who left Jamaica with other migrants to help rebuild England after World War II, later made his home in Canada. He now lives lives in Amaranth, Dufferin County, Ontario |
 Jamaican artist Garfield Morgan, who has done work for Panmedia, is one of the artist featured in When Big Man Talk, an exhibition that opens February 3 in Montreal at the Jamaica Association Arts |
 Before he died last year businessman Michael Campbell, founder of Island Car Rental, asked his close friend former Prime Minister P.J. |
 Former Prime Minister P J Patterson says it’s time for The University of the West Indies, Mona to create a Faculty of the Creative Arts, with linkages to the Faculty of Humanities. |