Jamaican Ceramic Artists

In an era when pottery was still regarded as a lesser art form cecil baugh was a pioneer in educating jamaican art lovers and gaining their respect for its fine art status.

Jamaican ceramic artists.

This website contains extracts from interviews and video of marlene munchie rhoden and cecil baugh. Before europeans arrived in jamaica the amerindian taino peoples made fine walled handbuilt pottery fired black. Cuban born multi media installation artist juana valdes takes a meta textual look at ceramics not only creating ceramic works but also questioning its historic use through global trade and colonization. For one recent ceramic series colored china rags she experiments with bone china.

Jamaica field expedition 2014. His stylised ceramic heads have become his trademark and their haunting profiles have influenced many potters and painters locally and abroad. Baugh s contribution to the world of jamaican ceramics was so great that he was named as jamaica s seminal artist potter of the 20th century. 08 19 2013 creating art outside your familiar environment inspires you to look inside yourself for strength and identity sparking new ideas in your work says doug casebeer anderson ranch s ceramics program director.

She studied at various art schools in england including st michael s school of art london and privately with maurice harding the animal sculptor. Trained at the jamaica school of art his work shows the stylistic influence of peers such as christopher gonzales and. He refined his technical and aesthetic skills in new york city for a number of years before returning home via a sojourn in japan. Introduction in january 1999 moira vincentelli visited jamaica to investigate women s traditional pottery.

11 innovative ceramic artists breathing new life into an age old art by kelly richman abdou on may 29 2017 when one attempts to imagine examples of contemporary ceramics simple adaptations and subtle variations on the timeless tradition may come to mind. Cecil baugh first developed an interest in clay making and ceramics as a. One of jamaica s most prominent potters coming out of the west african tradition is cecil baugh 1908 2005. This was a product valued for its whiteness and translucency and has a complex history relating to.

There is some evidence that this was made by women as it. She married norman manley in 1921 and in 1922 moved to jamaica with him. Manley was born in yorkshire england in 1900 to a jamaican mother and an english father and died february 2 1987. David pinto is one of jamaica s leading ceramic artists.