VISIONS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
18 October - 11 November
Tuesday - Sunday 12-5
Private view 17 October 6-8
Wednesday 24 October at 6:30 - Sequins, Soca and Sweat a film by Stephen Rudder
Tuesday 30 October at 6:30 - Dream to Change the World a film by Horace Ove
Saturday 10 November at 4:00 - Gallery talk with the artists
Free. Booking essential. Please book your place on gallery@galleryspace.org.uk
Founded in 1966 by John la Rose, Edward Kamau Brathwaite and Andrew Salkey, the Caribbean Artists Movement (CAM) aimed to explore and promote the collective and individual experiences of artists from Caribbean heritage. The movement involved poets, writers, painters, sculptors, illustrators, designers filmmakers and artists working across disciplines including Horace Ove, Althea McNish, Errol Lloyd, CLR James, Paul Dash, Aubrey Williams, Art Derry and Linton Kwesi Johnson among others.
Artists in the movement investigated the ideas and forms of Caribbean imagery, looking for a unique, distinguished, Caribbean aesthetic. Through seminars and reading events, workshops and exhibitions the Caribbean Artists Movement invited members and audiences to exchange ideas and developed a body of works reflecting on their Caribbean, African and Amerindian inheritance, incorporating the people's language and musical rhythms into their work, and challenging the boundaries of European cultural domination.
Visions of Consciousness focuses on the early days of the Caribbean Artists Movement and on the journeys taken from the Caribbean to the UK, from individuals into a movement. The exhibition looks at the cultural, political and social landscapes of the era in the Caribbean and in the UK and examines the issues explored by the movement. Visions of Consciousness includes original works, books, photographs, films and publication from the Caribbean Artists Movement as well as a specially commissioned short film by filmmakers Mark Knight and Matthew Robinson.
Visions of Consciousness is a gallery:space production curated by Shiri Shalmy and Jakeline Londoño.
This show has been produced with support from the George Padmore Institute and The Friends of Finsbury Park
Invite design by Birdy
Exhibition graphics by Simon Goode