“Holding Space” curated by Hospital Rooms and presented at Hauser & Wirth, London. A number of artists were asked to create a bespoke pair of…
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Conversations Over Tea, Performance, 03/06/23
Conversations Over Tea,(performance), June 3, 2023. (55.33.07mins) Hastings Contemporary. Artists Richard Mark Rawlins, Lorna Hamilton-Brown, Claudine Eccleston, Pablo Mcfee and Paul Hope discuss the similarities…
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46 (They wouldn’t listen to Diane), 27.05 mins Artists, Lorna Hamilton-Brown and Richard Mark Rawlins. Monday 18th March, 2024, The Stade, Hastings. Documentation: @aandimedia Red…
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Yet Another Horizon, Portals of Possibilities, 2023
Springfield Hospital, Shaftsbury seclusion rooms In the Spring of 2023 I ran three workshops with participants from Springfield University Hospital and The Courtauld Gallery, using…
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Jumbie Family, 2023
Trinity Buoys Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 selection. In this series I draw on my Caribbean heritage (I am Trinidadian) and research to make totemic drawings…
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Jab Jumbie, 2023
Jab Jumbie, 2023 (graphite on paper) commissioned for the We Out Here exhibition showcasing the work of six Black artists of Caribbean heritage based in…
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A Complex Triangle Indeed, 2022
This work created for the World Reimagined Project’s Leicester Art trail, can be described as a mind map of different complex historical trajectories, with reflections…
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Like a Rope, 2019-20
Like A Rope (detail) 2019-20 Graphite, Indian ink and Acrylic on paper 38 panels, each approx 35.cm x 43.2cm Like a Rope (2019-20), a drawing made…
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Another Horizon, 2021
Completed in August 2021, Another Horizon at Titian Ward in Tooting, was a work commissioned by UK based Hospital Rooms, an Arts and Mental Health…
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Conversations Over Tea, 2020 – Ongoing
My ‘inward’ state of being dictates recognition of being Trinidadian, black within for the large part an indo-afro society, subjected to vagaries of multiculturalism without…
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PUBLIC INTERVENTIONS, 2020
I am invisible understand, simply because people refuse to see me.- Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man /// Public intervention 3. Trafalgar Square, London, 7/7/2020 • Public…
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A MICROAGGRESSIVE TEXT
In my first term of RCA I noted a series of interactions and questions from non POC. Context is everything though… I am black, I…
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Polite Line Do Not Cross, 2017
Our national collective memory is short. We never stop to take stock of where we are, or where we’re going. Unfortunately, I think we’re doomed…
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Visual Cues, 2013
A series of works made during a rather pedestrian period in Port of Spain, that allowed me to notice/ think about more of my environment…
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THE ARTIST STATEMENT, 2013
The democratic “STEUPS”…the often go to dismissive response from those that would find it easier to ignore the Caribbean contemporaneous in favour of the more…
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PRIMARY PROPERTY, 2012
Primary Property 2013. This series of works explored the artist’s continuing fascination with Woodbrook’s seemingly invisible red light side and all its different incarnations of…
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HERE IS NOT A HAPPY PLACE, 2016-2018
Subversions camouflaged by a normative form, a normative process of art production, painting, with normative materials, canvas and paint. When you actually get into it,…
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I AM SUGAR, 2018
I AM SUGAR (2018), a series of digital photographs responding to Stuart Hall’s Old and New Ethnicities essay of 1991. In this essay, Hall states…
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ISLAND STATE OF MINE, 2018
This is our collective Caribbean reality,- trying to keep our head above water and just managing to stay afloat. We are on the front lines…
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RECONQUÊTE DE TINTIN, 2018
RECONQUÊTE DE TINTIN, 2018, Granderson Lab, Belmont, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. #newmedia #ttff/21
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EXHIBITION: OVERPR!NT AG!TATE ACT!VATE BELGIUM 2018
Curated by Jean Pierre Muller. Editions as seditions, prints as means of counter-information, from pamphlets to samizdats, from posters to clandestine press : the history…
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MOST THINGS HAPPEN WHEN I AM ASLEEP NZ
I had four works on show in this exhibition. #adresstothenation #tommorow #fullstop #fbombthejoke. The works part of Toofprints exhibition in New Zealand at Artspace NZ…
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A Dress to the Nation, 2017
Click here for the Short Film A DRESS TO THE NATION, 2017. 2 -3’x5′ National Flags, lace, brocade, bone, brown cotton, nylon, 1- size nine pair…
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Resting on our Laurels, Version 1
Resting on our Laurels, Version 1, OUT OF PLACE, ACTION #5 12 Prince and Oxford, Style 0019, size 14, khaki school pants, spray paint, orange clothes…
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TOOFPRINTS
toofprints is a side project exploring contemporary graphic design in a public space — Alice Yard. Curated by notsirk in conversation with Erik Brandt, founder…
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FINDING BLACK, 2014 – 2015 INSTALL VIEWS
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The General Public 2015
On the eve of Trinidad and Tobago’s general election, artist Richard Mark Rawlins showed two works at Alice Yard, Port of Spain, The Kamlaflage Jacket…
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WHO WAS THAT MASKED MAN ANYWAY? 2014
< scroll for more images WHY ALL THE BLACK AND FORTH? (2014)from “Who was that MasKed Man anyway?” Series. Acrylic, Graphite, Charcoal, Chalk Pastel I AM…
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#didyuhhearyuhself 2014
< scroll Inspired by a recent series of political soundbites, reportage and utterances of a number of Trinidad and Tobago’s “alleged” government representatives, #didyouhearyourself seeks to present,…
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046 FINDING BLACK
Culture, according to Stuart Hall is a site of ‘negotiation’. In Finding Black I explore the notion that a person of colour shouldn’t be defined…
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STEUPPS 2013…an essay.
“We are all mimic men” – V.S.Naipaul ~ “A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language.” ―…
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BUTTON PROJECT 2010
This was possibly the last Friday that my friend, a confessed and unabashed PNM party supporter, would have under the existing governing regime. And maybe…
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CHINESE WORKER 2010
Artist Statement
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OUT OF CONTEXT 2009
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SPEAK UP! 2007
<scroll for more images Silence is sound. Apathy is the noise of silence. Our quiet speaks for us. This living scrapbook of ideas entitled SPEAK UP! Addresses…
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