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Artist Exhibitions:
ART EXHIBITIONS:
One-woman Exhibitions:
1995 Musgrave Laureate
Exhibition – National Galley
of Jamaica
1993 Chelsea Gallery –
paintings from the “Night
Series” shown in conjunction
with ceramics by Jag Mehta
1989 Mutual Life Gallery,
Kingston, Jamaica – “The
Garden Series”, an exhibition
of 14 paintings depicting the
garden
1986 Bonagree Gallery
Commonwealth ...
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WORKS INCLUDED IN THE
FOLLOWING REVIEWS AND
PUBLICATIONS
1998 “Caribbean Art” Thames
and Hudson “World of Art”
series, Thames and Hudson,
London
1996 Feature article in BWIA
inflight magazine, by Dr.
Petrine Archer-Straw
published, June 1996
1996 Work included in UWI
publication, titled “Modern
Jamaican Art”, published,
November 1996, ...
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Artist Statement for Hope Brooks
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I am often asked the question what is my work about which is a little like being asked what is life about. Each person must bring their own experience and provide their own answers. Quite simply my work is about life and the enigma that surrounds existence. I make reference to specific experiences or draw on visual reality to act as a frame work or layer to the broader content and people bring their own interpretations as well.
When I began painting in the 60's I was focused on talking about natural phenomena that I found here in Jamaica, such as the sea, the mountains, the moon but I was also trying to find a language that expressed the essence and my emotional reaction to that phenomena which was my home.
This journey continued until the 1980's when I travelled to Baltimore USA and my visual surroundings changed completely. This city revealed beautiful stained glass windows and during my year at the Maryland Institute I produced a large body of work called "Windows". This included prints as well as paintings of the secular as well as the ecclesiastical. Someone looking at the work once said a window is either for looking out or for letting in and I found that expressed the essence of the window paintings whether they were the Rose windows in churches or old art nouveau stained glass in some of the homes or windows in modern buildings.
This series was followed by "The Old Book" a series about the medieval manuscripts of the Koran. I had long wanted to do a series of paintings about this because this art is one of the most "abstract" yet has such emotional power. It was my most successful series.
The work briefly returned to nature with serial paintings of the 90's with "Garden" series "Night" and "Clouds" but the effect of time took me into different, more political subject matter with 9/11 tragedy.
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