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This is a popular song by the Trinidad calypsonian The Mighty Sparrow and when i was growing up in England in the fifties it was a hit by Lonny Donegan, a Skiffle group, San Fernando is one of the three largest cities in Trinidad and about fifty miles from my studio. The last train service ended man...
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2017
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Medium:
Print, Giclee on Canvas
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Open Edition
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16 W x 20 H x 1.25 D in
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Yes
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Not Framed
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Black Canvas
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Ships in a Box
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Rex Dixon
Trinidad and Tobago
Rex Dixon was born in 1939 in London, England. After teaching in the painting department of the New University of Ulster in Belfast, Northern Ireland for several years, he came to Jamaica in 1985 to teach at the Edna Manley College for the Visual and Performing Arts. He has held numerous one person exhibitions in Kingston and abroad and his paintings are in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Jamaica and in other private collections. He was one of the painters representing Jamaica in the Biennial of Painting from the Caribbean and Central America in Santo Domingo in 1995 and 1997. He gave up his teaching position after teaching full time for twelve years in Jamaica, to take up full time painting in 1997. Since then he has travelled extensively with his wife Professor Patricia Mohammed, not only in the Caribbean but also to The Netherlands, Spain, Canada, Namibia and Japan experiences which have continued to feed back into his paintings. His studio is located in Maracas Valley, St. Joseph, Trinidad and Tobago to which he has moved since 2001 He has exhibited each year in either Trinidad or other Caribbean or internationally His most recent shows include "¢ A Suitable Distance: Impressions of Trinidad by Five artists - Rex Dixon, Peter Doig, Kofi Kayiga, Chris Ofili and Roberta Stoddart curated by Andy Jacob at the Soft Box Studios, Port of Spain, 2006. "¢ Where to find me- one person show, Amrose Sable Gallery - Albany, New York, 2007 "¢ Seventeen Colours - one person show, Softbox Studios, Alcazar Street, Port of Spain, Trinidad, 2010 "¢ Caribbean Edge - one person show, James Wray and Company, James Street South, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 2012 "¢ The Jamaican Biennale, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica, 2012
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