Art Bytes
Dr Rachel Moseley-Wood, head of the Department of Literatures in English at UWI, Mona recently launched her 254-page book, Show Us as We Are: Place, Nation and Identity in Jamaican Film. The book examines 11 Jamaican films in detail and is already considered essential reading for students of Jamaican films. Dr Moseley-Wood says the book was
written for both academics and other readers.
 In the last 50 years, Chester Higgins has caught some historical events on camera, like Bob Marley’s |
 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. |
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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. |
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The National Gallery’s flagship exhibition, Kingston Biennial, has been postponed because of Covid-19. |