Art Bytes
Corporate Jamaica is doing its part in bringing art to downtown Kingston.
Coldwell Banker has sponsored the painting of a mural on a building at the corner of Water Lane and Rosemary Lane, transforming the wall into a colourful Caribbean Scene.
Six artists from Trench Town, Central Kingston, Nannyville and Havendale are working with Kingston Creative to paint the mural.
 Jamaican Herb Robinson is one of 14 photographers in the Whitney Museum’s exhibition, Working Together: The Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop. The show chronicles the early work o |
 Camille Chedda has won a Stay Home Artist Residency, a five-month program that supports 24 cultural practitioners, artists and creative entrepreneurs. |
 The Windrush generation is in vogue again. Now a walkway on the Tilbury Bridge that they used on arrival in the UK, has been turned into an art installation to honour them. |
 Unbroken, the docu-film based on amputee Laron Williamson’s attempt to qualify for the Jamaican Paralympic team, won Best Documentary Short Film at the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival. |
 To commemorate the Windrush generation, Hackney will unveil two sculptures next year. |
 London-born fashion designer Grace Wales Bonner’s Jamaican roots were on full-display during Highsnobiety’s ‘Not In Paris’ exhibit. |