National Gallery Jamaica
Established in 1974, the National Gallery of Jamaica is the oldest and largest public art museum in the English-Speaking Caribbean. It has a comprehensive collection of early, modern and contemporary art from Jamaica along with smaller Caribbean and international holdings.
There were more works I didn’t take pictures of so check out the link above and links in artist’s names below for more info!
“Pressure buss pipe,” a popular Jamaican saying, often has a negative, potentially explosive interpretation… As lead curator, David Scott, has noted, “Pressure can also be generative.”
From the curatorial team of lead curator, Professor David Scott & co-curators O’Neil Lawrence, Wayne Modest & Nicole Smythe-Johnson comes Kingston Biennial 2022: Pressure, which features a selection of the works of 24 local and diaspora artists.
Laura Facey
Guide Their Way Home, 2021
10 plinths of varying sizes, hundreds of wooden hearts,
installation 1005.8 × 609.6 × 182.8 cm
Nari Ward
Windward, 2022
Jasmine Thomas-Girvan
The Healing Stream, 2022
50.8 cm × 45.7 cm
Paper, graphite, acrylic & wood
The Promise Key, 2021
7.6 x 7.6 x 10.1cm
Glass, sterling sliver paper
Babylon's fortunes foretold... But what about us?, 2022
22.6 cm x 29 cm × 7.5 cm
Transparent film and wood
MONIQUE GILPIN
Venus Figurines, 2020
Omari Ra
The Quilombo Mandate: My life in the Bush of Spirits, 2019-2021
121.9 cm x 152.4 cm & 152.4 cm x 242.8 cm
Mixed media /collage on fabric
Dutty Bungle: Monument for the Eyes-traders’ Public Square, 2019-2021
91.4 x 60.9 cm
Mixed media / wood, plastic
The New Bwa Kaye Imam Chronicles: Whirlwind Codes, 2019-2021
5.3ft: circumference, 3ft
Assemblage: wood, metal, paints height
Kaleb D'Aguilar
TAUT, 2021
Video duration 1: 4:43
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Ricardo Edwards
Ghetto Boy Trying to Fly, 2020
Digital painting
Wave Files, 2020
Digital Painting
Pirate Bwoy, 2018
Digital Painting
NADINE NATALIE HALL
Heirlooms Unchained, 2020
ALICIA BROWN
The Weight of the Crown, 2021
GREG BAILEY
Time, Place, and Us, 2022
Roberta Stoddart
It Must Be a Duppy or a Gunman, 1998
123.2 × 78.7 cm
Oil on primed linen on hardboard mounted on wooden panel
ROBERTA STODDART
Sleepwalkers, 2009-2017
KATRINA COOMBS
Apocalypse, Lifting of the Veil, 2021
CAMILLE CHEDDA
We all Live Under the same Sky, 2021
198 cm k 213.4 cm
(ongoing) Mixed media collage
PHILLIP THOMAS
Marshall, 2021
220.9 × 134.6 cm
Oil on canvas
Clarke Ladd Collection
LEASHO JOHNSON
Gully Creeper (Anansi #4), 2020
149.8 cm x 129.5 cm
Charcoal, distemper, watercolor, ink, gold foil, acrylic, oil, oil stick, & gesso on paper
Onus (Anansi #5), 2020
149.8 × 129.5 cm
Charcoal, distemper, watercolor, ink, coffee, gold foil, acrylic, oil, oil stick, and gesso on paper list of works
Tyranny and the speed of gossip, 2020
86.3 x 66 cm
Charcoal, distemper, watercolor, foil, acrylic, oil, oil stick, and gesso on paper
ARTHUR SIMMS
John the Baptist, Prisoner of the Earth, 1992-93
215.9 cm × 111.7 cm x 58.4 cm
Rope, wood, glue, metal, bongos & screws
Portrait of a Politician Vomiting, 1992
134.6 x 139.7× 55.8 cm
Rope, paper, wire, charcoal, pastel, pen, glue, plastic, metal, glassine, felt, screws, wood, burlap, paint, Lucy Fradkin drawing
Sexual Tension, 1992
195.6 × 185.4 x 86.4 cm
Rope, wood, metal, glue, paper, charcoal, pastel, paint, pen, plastic, wire, drawings on paper, gesso, screws
Portrait of An Angry Man With A Gun, 1992
144.8 x 203.2 x 70.1 cm
Rope, wood, glue, screws
MATTHEW MCCARTHY
Sun System Radio, 2022
220.9 cm x 119.3 cm x 35.5 cm
Mixed Media
(Molding foam & audio speakers on ply wood)
SATCH HOYT
Kick That, 2006
Collections
The Larry Wirth Collection
Comprises sixty-five sculptures and paintings produced by Jamaican Intuitive Mallica “Kapo” Reynolds, OD, (1911-1989), acquired with assistance from the Government of Jamaica.
The A.D. Scott collection
Comprises works of art donated to the National Gallery of Jamaica by renowned Master Builder Ainsworth David Scott, OD (1912-2004).
David Boxer Collection
National Gallery of Jamaica Collection
The Pre-Twentieth Century Collection
Also known as the ‘Historical Collection’, is an assembly of numerous visual art objects dated from as early as circa 1000 AD to the late nineteenth century.
Edna Manley Galleries
