Short Course: Britain’s Caribbean Artists Movement (1966 – 1972)
The Caribbean Artist Movement started in a small London flat in Mecklenburgh Square in 1966 by a Caribbean writer on study leave wishing quite naturally, to get in touch with as many Caribbean artists as possible. Where were they? Who were they? This course examines the roots/routes of The Caribbean Artists Movement in Britain.
The course provides an introduction to the lives and works of the key participants, including those not only at the core, but those that documented it, and so too those on the periphery that lent the association support.
Tutor: Richard Mark Rawlins
Richard Mark Rawlins is from the Port of Spain, Trinidad &; Tobago, currently lives and works in Hastings, UK. A graduate of the Royal College of Art’s print programme (2019), Rawlins’ research takes a transnational approach to ‘pop-cultural ’ poetics and politics of life in the Caribbean, the contested and resultant histories/realities of colonialism and it’s transpontine consequence, Black identity and diaspora politics.
Rawlins’ work has featured as part of the Ingram Prize 2020; Wells Art Contemporary 2020; Photofringe 2020; The Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival 2020; We Are More Than a Moment (2020) Gallery-51, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts; Get Up Stand Up Now, Somerset House, London, UK (2019); “ransoceanic Visual Exchange 2019” Cache Space, Beijing, China 2; “OVERPR!NT, AG!TATE, ACT!VATE”, Museum Centre de la Gravure et de l’image imprimée, La Louvière, Belgium (2018); “Most things Happen When I Am Asleep”, ARTSPACE NZ, Auckland, New Zealand (2018); “Digital”, National Gallery, Jamaica (2015); the “Jamaica Biennial” (2014) and the “Global Africa Project”, Museum of Art and Design (MAD), New York, USA (2010).
He is a past artist resident of the Vermont Studio Center, USA (2012) and a past lecturer in design atthe University of the West Indies. Rawlins currently hosts informal ig live chats, ‘LIVE AT FIVE’ on Mondays for Hospital Rooms an Arts and Mental Health Charity talking to various artists and healthcare professionals.
Rawlins work has been acquired by the Wedge Curatorial Collection, Toronto; AMBA Collection, London, the Soho House Art Collection, London and the Art Collection of the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain.
Date & Time:
4 weeks
Every Tuesday
21 September - 12 October (2021)
7:00 pm (BST)
Delivery:
To create an interactive viewing experience, each course is delivered live via Zoom. Information to access the classes and the learning material will be sent up to one week prior to the course start date. Participants will also be able to access the learning platform which includes the recordings of the live lectures for 30 days after the last class.
The Caribbean Artist Movement started in a small London flat in Mecklenburgh Square in 1966 by a Caribbean writer on study leave wishing quite naturally, to get in touch with as many Caribbean artists as possible. Where were they? Who were they? This course examines the roots/routes of The Caribbean Artists Movement in Britain.
The course provides an introduction to the lives and works of the key participants, including those not only at the core, but those that documented it, and so too those on the periphery that lent the association support.
Tutor: Richard Mark Rawlins
Richard Mark Rawlins is from the Port of Spain, Trinidad &; Tobago, currently lives and works in Hastings, UK. A graduate of the Royal College of Art’s print programme (2019), Rawlins’ research takes a transnational approach to ‘pop-cultural ’ poetics and politics of life in the Caribbean, the contested and resultant histories/realities of colonialism and it’s transpontine consequence, Black identity and diaspora politics.
Rawlins’ work has featured as part of the Ingram Prize 2020; Wells Art Contemporary 2020; Photofringe 2020; The Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival 2020; We Are More Than a Moment (2020) Gallery-51, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts; Get Up Stand Up Now, Somerset House, London, UK (2019); “ransoceanic Visual Exchange 2019” Cache Space, Beijing, China 2; “OVERPR!NT, AG!TATE, ACT!VATE”, Museum Centre de la Gravure et de l’image imprimée, La Louvière, Belgium (2018); “Most things Happen When I Am Asleep”, ARTSPACE NZ, Auckland, New Zealand (2018); “Digital”, National Gallery, Jamaica (2015); the “Jamaica Biennial” (2014) and the “Global Africa Project”, Museum of Art and Design (MAD), New York, USA (2010).
He is a past artist resident of the Vermont Studio Center, USA (2012) and a past lecturer in design atthe University of the West Indies. Rawlins currently hosts informal ig live chats, ‘LIVE AT FIVE’ on Mondays for Hospital Rooms an Arts and Mental Health Charity talking to various artists and healthcare professionals.
Rawlins work has been acquired by the Wedge Curatorial Collection, Toronto; AMBA Collection, London, the Soho House Art Collection, London and the Art Collection of the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain.
Date & Time:
4 weeks
Every Tuesday
21 September - 12 October (2021)
7:00 pm (BST)
Delivery:
To create an interactive viewing experience, each course is delivered live via Zoom. Information to access the classes and the learning material will be sent up to one week prior to the course start date. Participants will also be able to access the learning platform which includes the recordings of the live lectures for 30 days after the last class.
The Caribbean Artist Movement started in a small London flat in Mecklenburgh Square in 1966 by a Caribbean writer on study leave wishing quite naturally, to get in touch with as many Caribbean artists as possible. Where were they? Who were they? This course examines the roots/routes of The Caribbean Artists Movement in Britain.
The course provides an introduction to the lives and works of the key participants, including those not only at the core, but those that documented it, and so too those on the periphery that lent the association support.
Tutor: Richard Mark Rawlins
Richard Mark Rawlins is from the Port of Spain, Trinidad &; Tobago, currently lives and works in Hastings, UK. A graduate of the Royal College of Art’s print programme (2019), Rawlins’ research takes a transnational approach to ‘pop-cultural ’ poetics and politics of life in the Caribbean, the contested and resultant histories/realities of colonialism and it’s transpontine consequence, Black identity and diaspora politics.
Rawlins’ work has featured as part of the Ingram Prize 2020; Wells Art Contemporary 2020; Photofringe 2020; The Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival 2020; We Are More Than a Moment (2020) Gallery-51, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts; Get Up Stand Up Now, Somerset House, London, UK (2019); “ransoceanic Visual Exchange 2019” Cache Space, Beijing, China 2; “OVERPR!NT, AG!TATE, ACT!VATE”, Museum Centre de la Gravure et de l’image imprimée, La Louvière, Belgium (2018); “Most things Happen When I Am Asleep”, ARTSPACE NZ, Auckland, New Zealand (2018); “Digital”, National Gallery, Jamaica (2015); the “Jamaica Biennial” (2014) and the “Global Africa Project”, Museum of Art and Design (MAD), New York, USA (2010).
He is a past artist resident of the Vermont Studio Center, USA (2012) and a past lecturer in design atthe University of the West Indies. Rawlins currently hosts informal ig live chats, ‘LIVE AT FIVE’ on Mondays for Hospital Rooms an Arts and Mental Health Charity talking to various artists and healthcare professionals.
Rawlins work has been acquired by the Wedge Curatorial Collection, Toronto; AMBA Collection, London, the Soho House Art Collection, London and the Art Collection of the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain.
Date & Time:
4 weeks
Every Tuesday
21 September - 12 October (2021)
7:00 pm (BST)
Delivery:
To create an interactive viewing experience, each course is delivered live via Zoom. Information to access the classes and the learning material will be sent up to one week prior to the course start date. Participants will also be able to access the learning platform which includes the recordings of the live lectures for 30 days after the last class.
Artwork: ‘Unknown Political Prisoner', Ronald Moody, 1953