I SHALL RETURN AGAIN – OPENING

“I Shall Return Home Again”: 5 Young Jamaican Artists Channel their experiences and perceptions of “home” in Western Jamaica.

“I Shall Return Again” is the title of the National Gallery West’s latest Exhibition which officially opens on Sunday September 9, 2018 at the Montego Bay Cultural Centre. It Features the work of five young Jamaicans who are multiple award winning, seasoned artists with extensive work in Cinematography, photography, painting, sculpture and entrepreneurship.

Storm Saulter, Nile Saulter, Leasho Johnson, Cosmo Whyte and Monique Gilpin channel their experiences and longing for home in pieces which explore “disenchantment of Millenial Jamaicans, Post Colonial identities and stereotypes associated with tourism, gender, sexuality and violence.

In the edgy, youthful and provocative display, the artists who have all originated from or have been based in parts of Western Jamaica and will present in paintings, drawings, sculpture, photography and film  inspired by  Claude McKay’s poem  “I shall Return” where he too longs to “return again”  to “laugh and love and watch which wonder-eyes”.

The exhibition will be on until later this year and is part of the Montego Bay Cultural Centre’s dynamic and unique offerings which also includes other exhibitions at the National Museum West and a rotation of different exhibitions at the National Gallery West. The Centre remains committed to preserving and highlighting elements of Jamaica’s History, Culture and Art, packaged for a wide audience.