Bio data:
Born 10 November 1963, Trinidad
Boarding school in the U.K. 1972 - 1981
TERTIARY ART EDUCATION:
Croydon College of Design and Technology - one year Foundation Course 1981 – ‘82, followed by 3 Year HnD (Higher National Diploma UK) 1982 – ’85, in Painting and Printmaking, graduated with Distinction.
Returned to Trinidad in 1985, formed Studio, career based in Trinidad to the present day.
THE VISUAL ARTS ENVIRONMENT (VAE) 1987 – 1991:
Formed as a collaborative enterprise with colleague/artist, Steve Ouditt, in the late eighties; an orchestrated and planned, experimental series of workshops and classes in the visual arts, combining the academic and professional attitudes of then designer and fine artist, in a comprehensive approach to art learning and tuition. The program was enormously successful, including numerous visits to the workshops’ program by local practicing visual artists as part of the curriculum, and heralded the formation of many new younger careers in the visual arts.
CROSSOVER DESIGN LTD 1990 – 1991:
The Bowen Ouditt collaboration continued into a professional design framework, employing past students as graphic designers in studio graphics, advertising and marketing. Creative directions and commissioned works also included design consultancy, corporate id, spectacle, interiors, signage, object and furniture design.
EXHIBITION HISTORY: (in brief)
Over twenty individual one man shows locally almost annually since 1986 including numerous studio shows, many international group exhibitions –
GALLERY 1234 – Hotel Normandie, Port of Spain, 1986. First one man show.
AQUARELA GALLERIES, 1a Dere St PoS – three one man shows in late eighties, early nineties
IFA GALLERY, Bonn, Germany – “7 Trinidad Artists” (sponsored by the German Gov/Aquarela Galleries)
CCA7 (www.cca7.org) - artist in residency on two occasions, exhibitions on two occasions with major series of works, “The Lessons in Colonialism” 2000, “9 x 5” 2005 - selection committee for incoming residency appointments, art education advisor and consultant)
2000 – 2005 SANTO DOMINGO BIENALE 1994
“the architect of impossible physics” @ FREVD’S, 198 Shaftesbury Ave., London - 1994
