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Title Jamaica making : the Theresa Roberts Art Collection / edited by Emma Roberts
Published Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : color illustrations
Summary This book accompanies the first exhibition entirely of Jamaican art to take place in the north-west of the UK. The exhibition, Jamaica Making: The Theresa Roberts Art Collection, is sited at the Victoria Gallery and Museum, Liverpool in 2022, and is a comprehensive presentation of the best of Jamaican art since the 1960s. The Theresa Roberts Art Collection is the private collection of Theresa Roberts, a Jamaican-born businesswoman and philanthropist, who has made the UK her home. This collection offers an important insight into the development of Jamaican art since the country gained Independence in 1962. Indeed, the exhibition also acts to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Jamaican Independence in 2022. Included in the book are the following: an official welcome from the Prime Minister of Jamaica; an essay by the collector, exhibition donor and philanthropist, Theresa Roberts; an introduction by eminent British-Jamaican art historian, Edward Lucie-Smith; essays by Emma Roberts, the exhibition curator, (Liverpool John Moores University), Davinia Gregory, writer, educator and researcher, (Columbia University, USA) and Sireita Mullings, arts practitioner and visual sociologist (University of Bedfordshire). The final section of the book is the full visual catalogue of the Jamaica Making exhibition - a unique record of this historic exhibition. Exhibition: Victoria Gallery and Museum, Liverpool, UK (19.02-09.07.2022)
Notes Published to accompany the exhibition held at the Victoria Gallery and Museum
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
Subject Roberts, Theresa -- Art collections -- Exhibitions
Art, Jamaican -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
Art, Jamaican -- 21st century -- Exhibitions
ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General
Art, Jamaican
Art -- Private collections
Genre/Form Exhibition catalogs
Form Electronic book
Author Roberts, Emma, editor
Victoria Gallery & Museum, host institution.
ISBN 9781800855472
1800855478