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Jamaica Making Emma Roberts

Jamaica Making By Emma Roberts

Jamaica Making by Emma Roberts


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Jamaica Making: The Theresa Roberts Art Collection by Emma Roberts

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.

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-Kameka, 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.

About Emma Roberts

Emma Roberts is Associate Dean (Global Engagement) at Liverpool John Moores University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements: Emma RobertsWelcome: The Most Honourable Andrew Holness, Prime Minister of JamaicaIntroduction: Theresa RobertsThe Theresa Roberts Collection: Emma RobertsArt for Inclusion: Edward Lucie-SmithHome is in the Traces: Davinia GregoryBeyond Exotification: Sireita MullingsCatalogue of Images

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GOR013872502
9781800856202
1800856202
Jamaica Making: The Theresa Roberts Art Collection by Emma Roberts
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Liverpool University Press
2022-02-04
96
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