Sarah Beckett
Contact: beckstt@gmail.com
Sarah Beckett is an artist and film director. She trained in France and England gained her degree in Mural Design at Chelsea College of Art. She has lived for many years in Trinidad, West Indies and currently she is on a Sabbatical in Mallorca, Balearic Isles Spain.
She has exhibited in Europe, the Far East, the USA and throughout the Caribbean, representing Trinidad in Atlanta, USA and in Carifesta IX in 2007. Her work was showcased by In2art Gallery at the The Summit of the Americas Exhibition in Trinidad, April 2009. Her work is currently on display on the walls of The Trinidad Oval Cricket Ground and the Hyatt Hotel Waterfront Project, as part of The People’s Canvas, a Trinidad & Tobago Art Society initiative of taking art out of the gallery and onto the street.
To date, Beckett has made two films: ‘Alabaster Moon’, the first of a quartet of Educative Documentary on the arts, whichwas premiered at the Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival 2008. This is now distributed throughout the Caribbean and slated for BBC Television, England. In 2007, ‘Like an Angel’s Wing’, was showcased in Trinidad, Guyana & London.
Currently Beckett is working on the second in this quartet of Educative Documentary Films on the Arts to be shot in Trinidad and Mallorca, and preparing for a one –woman exhibition at In2art Gallery, Trinidad in October 2009.
In 2006, Beckett’s Educative Creative Outreach (ECO) Programme for art initiatives for The Cotton Tree Foundation , won the British Petroleum (BPtt) Soca Award.
In 2005 Beckett founded, and is Creative Director of, Trinidad Quartet Productions, a charitable organisation dedicated to Educative Creative Outreach initiatives and promotion of the arts through film, books and multi-arts events and performances.
In 2001 Beckett and John Vanneste, pianist, formed Polyphony, a creative alliance exploring the relationship between art and music. They produced five collaborative events in Trinidad over the following three years.
In 1994/5 Beckett, in collaboration with Theatre PKF, ran ‘The Engine Room’ providing a forum for collaborative creative events staged at Beckett’s studio in London.
She has taught Fine Art at The University of the West Indies, designed and conducted Educative Creative Outreach programmes for NGOs, and is a member of the Trinidad & Tobago Art Society.
Between 1988 - 1990 she was sponsored to exhibit and paint for three months each year in Singapore and Malaysia. In the early eighties she designed and produced Carnival Bands for The Notting Hill Gate Carnival in London.
One Woman Exhibitions Include:
2008 Beckett at In2Art Gallery, Trinidad.
2007 Rhapsody in Red, Tides Gallery Barbados.
Like an Angels Wing II – Umana Yana Arts Centre, Guyana
Like an Angel’s Wing I– The Normandie Hotel, Trinidad
2006 Across a Crowded Room – a la Bastille Restaurant, Trinidad
2005 Symphony in Blue Minor II – Horizons Art Gallery Trinidad
Symphony in Blue Minor I – Cox & Co Galerie, Amsterdam
2003 The Magician’s Sleeves – Guardian Life Atrium, Trinidad
2002 Gimme Shelter – Gallery 101, Trinidad
2001` Paintings from Paradise, Stables Gallery, Birmingham, England
2000 Dreaming in Trinidad – Gallery 101 Trinidad
1997 Cathedrals of Silence II – Sewell Gallery, Oxford, England
Cathedrals of Silence I- Gallery 101, Trinidad
1990 Art Affairs Gallery, Singapore
1989 Fattoria le Terrazze, Ancona, Italy
E & O Gallery, Penang
1988 Art Affairs Singapore
Christopher Hull Gallery, London
1986 Christopher Hull Gallery, London
1983 Kappa Galerie, Amsterdam
Group Exhibitions include
2009 Summit of the Americas Exhibition, Trinidad
The Peoples Canvas Exhibition, Hyatt Waterfront Hotel, & Oval Cricket Ground, Trinidad
2008 Art Society Annual Exhibition,Trinidad
2007 Inaugural Exhibition - In2Art Gallery, Trinidad
2006 Carifesta IX Art Exhibition, Jena Pierre Complex, Trinidad
2003 Cultural Sensations .Atlanta USA
2000 National Museum of Trinidad & Tobago 38th Anniversary Exhibition
International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Trinidad
1989 National Museum Art Gallery, Singapore
National Art & Design Fair, London
1986 The South Bank, London
1983 British Painting Exhibition, The Mall Galleries, London
Broad Spectrum, Hilton, Trinidad
Public Collections include,
The National Museum of Trinidad & Tobago. The Labour Museum, London. Barclays Bank, British Petroleum, Guardian Life, Sagicor, Neil & Massey, Fitzwilliam, Stone, Furness Smith & Morgan, Pollonais, Blanc, de la Bastide & Jacelon.
Beckett’s work has been featured in many publications including,
2008, Front Cover of The Bijou Collection, Trinidad. 2007 Front cover ‘If yah Iron is good you is King’. History of Steelband. Trinidad. 2000,Trinidad & Tobago Postal Service Special Issue of Christmas Stamps. 1998 The Amoco Art Collection & The Women Artists Diary UK.
Calendars. 2006 The Shelter, Trinidad. 2004 The Magicians Sleeves . 1998 Trinidad Mutual Life Assurance, Trinidad
ARTIST STATEMENT
"There is an area of feeling that defies articulation. True abstract art flows from the realms of imagination and perception that make the guessed at a reality and gives dreams expression."
Fields of Gold III
