Artist Stanley Greaves Painting at Richmond

13/09/2010

The artist Stanley Greaves will be completing a one – week residency in The Print Studio at Asa Briggs Hall from Monday 13th to Friday 17th September. A reception will be held on an evening of the following week (date to be announced) when students and faculty will be able to meet with him.

Stanley Greaves is a painter and writer who was born in a "tenement yard" on Carmichael Street, Georgetown, Guyana. He studied Art in Guyana with Edward Burrowes in the Working Peoples' Art Class, 1948-61. Attended University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the UK 1963-68 studied painting although majoring in sculpture for the B.A.Hons degree in Fine Art. He was a Fulbright Scholar from 1979-80 at Howard University, where he studied printmaking and sculpture for the MFA degree.

He is one of the Caribbean's most distinguished artists with major exhibitions in the UK and Europe as well as throughout the Caribbean. He works mainly in painting, but has also produced sculpture, drawings, prints and pottery. He has been awarded national prizes in both Guyana and Barbados and won a gold medal for painting for the Barbados entry at the Santo Domingo Bienniale.

In addition to this he is also a keen student of the classical guitar having studied with Francisco Gonzalez of Cuba and Pam Frost of Barbados.

Stanley has also had two books of his poetry published and is in London for the launch of the new book, Art In The Caribbean, which he has co-authored with Anne Walmsley and published by New Beacon Press.

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