Jackie Hinkson: 5 Decades of Art

A retrospective exhibition and launch of his memoir "What Things Are True" “Christ in Trinidad” series 10 - 30 Oct @ Bishop Anstey High School Hall “Disappearing Architecture” 10 Oct - 7 Nov at the Alma Jordan Library, West Indiana and Special collections, UWI An Exhibition of 5 decades of drawings @ Soft Box Art Gallery 13 - 23 Oct We does Draw: Open drawing Studios 20 + 27 Oct + 3 Nov, 1-5pm @ the Museum A Reading with the Artist from his Memoir 2012 24 Nov, 12 noon @ the Museum This show is a retrospective of work produced over fifty years by a Trinidadian artist. After graduating, Jackie Hinkson began teaching at Queen's Royal College. After 16 years of teaching, he went on to work as a full-time artist, specializing in drawing , watercolour , oil painting, and wood sculpture. Hinkson produced a series of drawings documenting the built environment of Trinidad and Tobago. Some of these will be on display at The Alma Jordan Library at UWI - Disappearing architecture. This body of work is of great value to art and cultural researchers. As our landscape changed so has Hinkson continued to visually document its evolution. In his more recent work as with the Christ in Trinidad series at Bishops Anstey High school, we see commercial billboards and crane-arms. His figures are no longer in the agricultural fields, but these carry laptop bags and use mobile phones. I Lastly, since this retrospective focuses strongly on draughtsmanship, as reflected in the drawing exhibition at Soft Box Art Gallery, we have invited a group of young illustrators to be part of a workshop activity in the museum. We are pleased to offer the gallery space as an open drawing studio between Mr Hinkson and others on three Saturday afternoons. The National Museum is committed to exhibitions which push us onto new ground in the dissemination of Trinidad and Tobago's visual arts.