Veerle Poupeye's blog about art in the Caribbean and beyond
Pascale Monnin - Chuchotements, 2014, collection: the Artist This commentary, on the recently closed Vives Exhibition, was first published in the Jamaica Monitor of January 30, 2022. During my stay here in Haiti, I have had the opportunity to share a house, and to work and exchange thoughts with two highly accomplished women in the... Continue Reading →
The Edna Manley College, where I teach, has been in the news recently with allegations of sexual harassment. Here is not the place to comment on that particular instance but it is widely recognized that it is part of a much bigger problem in Jamaica, that affects many, if not all public and private sector... Continue Reading →
Sane Mae “Mama Lane” Dunkley, who passed away unexpectedly just before the end of 2017, was a significant culture bearer from Jamaica. Of rural origins from St Elizabeth but based in Jones Town, Kingston for most of her adult life, she was part of an extended family in which popular textile and fibre traditions had... Continue Reading →
Here is part 2 of my extended interview with poet and artist Jacqueline Bishop (you can read part 1 here): VP: Your involvement in quilt making has broader implications for your work and some have used the term “patchwork aesthetic” to describe it. Could you explain this with some examples? And please tell us... Continue Reading →
In November 2015, I conducted an interview with Jacqueline Bishop, coming out of our conversations about the "Explorations IV: Seven Women Artists" exhibition at the National Gallery. That exhibition, among other things, asked why there is so little consideration, in the (art-)historical and material record, for the material creative production of Jamaican women, other than... Continue Reading →
This short essay on Dawn Scott's A Cultural Object (1985), a mixed-media installation at the National Gallery of Jamaica (NGJ), is adapted from a section of my doctoral dissertation "Between Nation and Market: Art and Society in 20th Century Jamaica" (2011, Emory University). A Cultural Object is presently not open to the public, as it... Continue Reading →
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