Activity: Arts Lecture
Host: Moray House Trust
Date: Tuesday 21st October 2014
Moray House Trust was delighted to host ‘A Retrospective View of some of my most significant works over the last two decades’ by local sculptor, Winslow Craig.
Winslow’s work will already be familiar to many Guyanese. He has exhibited extensively at home and abroad, notably in New Zealand, Belize, China, Trinidad and Tobago, Suriname, Venezuela and the USA.
Winslow was born at Caria Caria on the Essequibo River. He studied at the E.R. Burrowes School of Arts and graduated with distinction in 1989. In 1996 he was awarded the Commonwealth Arts and Crafts Award (1996). He was recently awarded the portfolio for the design and model of the Indian Arrival Monument to be erected at Palmyra, Berbice and is also working on a steel sculpture for the Athletics Track at Leonora .
All photos are courtesy of Michael Lam.
Video Clips:
Emancipation
Winslow talks briefly about some of his key works, ‘Columbus’, ‘Ashes of the Past’ and ‘Emancipation’.
You Tube Clip: http://youtu.be/d9afgScMvvM
My Heritage
Winslow describes some of his sculptures of eagles, jaguars, a kanaima and a ‘jaguar-snake’.
You Tube Clip: http://youtu.be/KjsgTDKvIyU
Natural Environment
“We will leave marks and scars upon the face of nature but eventually we are the ones who will disappear.” Winslow talks about his concern for the environment in this clip which includes images of his remarkable tree sculptures, ‘Cutting Edge’ and ‘The Guardian’.
You Tube Clip: http://youtu.be/meZT5pPaCqk
Social Environment
Winslow interprets the period 2003-2004 in Guyana through the medium of sculpture. This clip contains the pieces ‘ Long Shadows’, ‘Reaching’, ‘Strangled’ and ‘Persistent Memory’.
You Tube Clip: http://youtu.be/n_A11CPIlg0