PRIMARY PROPERTY 2012.

 This show explores the artists continuing fascination with Woodbrook’s seemingly invisible red light side and all its different incarnations of prime property and commodity, including its legacy of human real estate. The Murray Street/ Avenue area location of the Night Gallery just 10 short years ago was home to at least six brothels today the trade is on the street in a somewhat coexisting and camouflaged form.The show’s media consist of 25 new paintings, explorations on buttons, a series of digital prints, a multimedia collaboration with Gif Jockey Wanderoller and a design object collaboration with Melissa Darbeau. The show runs from Mon 3rd September to Friday 7th, 2012.

bag collaboration with designer Melissa Darbeau

collaboration with gj wanderroller

Design: PICTURES FROM PARADISE

Pictures from Paradise: A Survey of Contemporary Caribbean Photography

Published by Robert and Christopher Publishers • Edited by Melanie Archer and Mariel Brown • 224 pgs FC

Pictures From Paradise -The Book

Pictures From Paradise - Bookshop Poster

Pictures From Paradise - RGB QUOTATION DISKS

Pictures From Paradise - INVITATION

Pictures from Paradise -SNEAK PEEK.

Pictures from Paradise: A Survey of Contemporary Caribbean Photography

Published by Robert and Christopher Publishers • Edited by Melanie Archer and Mariel Brown • 224 pgs FC

Designed by Richard Mark Rawlins

Essay by O'Neil Lawrence

Featuring the work of EWAN ATKINSON, MARVIN BARTLEY, TERRY BODDIE, HOLLY BYNOE, JAMES COOPER, RENEE COX, GERARD GASKIN, ABIGAIL HADEED, GERARD HANSON, NADIA HUGGINS, MARLON JAMES, ROSHINI KEMPADOO, O'NEIL LAWRENCE, EBONY G PATTERSON, RADCLIFFE ROYE, ALEX SMAILES, STACEY TYRELL, RODELL WARNER

Robert & Christopher Publishers Images from the book, Pictures from Paradise. Title launches on April 26, as part of the Bocas Lit Fest. For more information check out: http://www.bocaslitfest.com/schedule-thursday-26-april-2012.html

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GHOST FACE KILLA OMINOUS REINDEER MAN IN JA.

Got a number of cool gifts this Christmas...among them was a pair of Reindeer antlers and a "blinking" red nose. I also got a cool book from my friend Dave on iPHONEOGRAPHY. So I started exploring the antlers from the perspective of someone who is gradually coming around to really liking Christmas once again. Don't ask...long story, but anyways I give you..da Ghost Face Killa' Ominous Reindeer Man Series...in Jamaica...all shot on iPod. ENJOY.-rmr.

Darryn Boodan:

hmm the reindeer is not an ingeniousness animal to the Caribbean space

wearing the antlers and red nose... almost becomes a carnival costume... reminiscent of a blue devil on jouvert morning...

this work attempts to subvert the traditional visual vocabulary we posess, by imposing a re imagined concept of an imposed tradition thereby reclaiming it

there is also an innate sadness about the work..in each frame we get a sense of isolation and despair..this surely is an ode to "Rudolph the red nose reindeer " the lonely reindeer that nobody wanted to play with... the object in the photos seems to resign himself to the fact that there will be no "santa" to come to his rescue and ask him to guide his slay tonight...transforming him into a new social creature ..no....he is doomed to a world of sadness