It was refreshing and a great balance to my ‘traditional’ year in the UK. I made a time sculpture, a wind sculpture, a strange costume and addressed other unusual themes. My summer course in Rhode Island was contemporary. What was magical was getting on a train to London, spending my weekends there and visiting every art gallery and museum that my legs and mind could manage - the Hayward, the British Museum, The Royal College of Surgeons and so on. There was no art history to speak of and certainly no discussion about slavery or colonization. Laura Facey : NO! For my foundation year at art school in England I received a traditional ‘hands on’ course of learning - life drawing, lithography, etching, block printing, painting, carving in plaster, clay and photography.
Were historical themes such as the transatlantic slave trade, slavery and colonization addressed in those settings? Facey lives in St Ann, Jamaica.Īnna Seiderer : You were trained at the Jamaica School of Art as well as at the West Surrey College of Art and Design in England and the Rhode Island School of Design in the US in the seventies. In 2014 the Jamaican Government conferred on her the Order of Distinction (Commander). She was awarded the Musgrave Silver Medal (2006), and the Aaron Matalon Prize for her contribution to the 2010 Jamaica Biennial. She has shown work in numerous local and international exhibitions it has been showcased in important publications such as the journal Small Axe, and her many commissions include the well-known statue entitled Redemption Song (2003) in Emancipation Park in Kingston. In recent years her focus has been on large-scale meditative pieces which explore the symbolic and cultural potential of the natural forms of wood, and of man-made tools and instruments. Although she is principally known as a sculptor, Facey also works in other media such as drawing, painting and print-making. She also attended West Surrey College of Art and Design in England and Rhode Island School of Design in the United States. She graduated from the Jamaica School of Art with a Diploma in Sculpture in 1975. 1Laura Facey was born in 1945 in Kingston, Jamaica.
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