Veerle Poupeye's blog about art in the Caribbean and beyond
This is the second of a three-part post. Part I can be found here and part III is forthcoming. In 1961, the then young politician Edward Seaga delivered his seminal speech "The Haves and the Have Nots" in the Jamaican Upper House. Irrespective of how we may feel about the ideological and political path Seaga... Continue Reading →
People approach me all the time with requests for appraisals of works of art. While it is clear that the demand is present here in Jamaica, and that I could perhaps make a pretty penny if I would offer such services, I am reluctant to do so for two reasons. One is that I am... Continue Reading →
Errol Ross Brewster - Stop Death from Malnutrition (1984) Here is part II of my conversation with Errol Ross Brewster. Part I can be found here. Veerle Poupeye:- You were born and raised at a time when Guyana was entering a period of political and ideological radicalism, which significantly impacted the course of the country... Continue Reading →
The Brewsters, 1956, Kitty, Georgetown Here is the first part of a two part conversation with Errol Ross Brewster. Part II can be found here. Errol Brewster is a Caribbean artist from Guyana, living in the United States. With more than four decades of a Caribbean-wide, multimedia imaging practice, he has participated in multiple CARIFESTA’s;... Continue Reading →
I am very pleased to be able to publish this photo essay by Errol Ross Brewster, as a first post on his work. It will be followed by a two-part interview with him (click here for part I). “BEWARE THE PROMISE TODAY” is a photo essay about the demise in Guyana, in the early 1970s,... Continue Reading →
This essay was written as a commission by Le Centre d'Art for the catalogue of the exhibition by the Haitian artist Tessa Mars titled "île Modèle-Manman Zile-Island Template", at the Maison Dufort in Port-au-Prince, May 31-June 29, 2019. It was translated into French for the catalogue. The original English version is posted here, with permission... Continue Reading →
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