Born 1977 in St.Vincent and the Grenadines. Attained an Associate Degree in Fine Art from the Barbados Community College, Barbados in 1996, a Diploma in Painting from the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, Jamaica in 1998 and a Masters Degree in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London, England in 2001. Lived and worked in London until returning to St.Vincent and the Grenadines in 2003. Exhibited in several Group Shows in London and Wales. Participated in the Triangle Arts, Cyfunaid International Artist Workshop in Wales in 2001. Selected as one of the final 12 artists for the Trinidad and Tobago Clico 2004 Corporate Art Calendar.  Exhibited in Young Talent V at the National Gallery in Kingston, Jamaica in May 2010, and in RCA Black at the Royal College of Art, London, England in August 2011. Sardine is currently creating, painting, and assembling a body of work…

“There is a Brathwaitean lingustuic creativity at play here, and “bops” milks orality with skill and guile; her manipulation of sound and language and her rendering of spoken Creole isnothing short of brilliant. beeez pitch pan sheee; calameetee clamp sheee; she sed harr ancestors protected haar; ah trutru tor.e; The Xtorshonists . . . NOW PLAYIN: the titles hint at personal tragedies as well as public misdemeanours — the phenomena of extortion and generalised corruption that plague societies globally”.

Annie Paul
Brave New World – Young Talent V
Caribbean Review of Books

Artist Statement

ART; is my reh-seee-peee for rituals, reeesUninnns an rammmblinnns…

deee deeelivereee of my art slips between deee cracks of convenshonnnal artistick dissseeeplinnns. It is a rite of passage dat uses images, objects an words I find along deee wey to invoke emotional heeelinnn, spiritual enlitement an social an political conshens…

art is sooo urgent pain-t seeps thru my skinnn colllectinnn “bewteeefulll junk is closer dan breeethe-innn…

n e ting dat has beeen used becums impetus for innnsperayshannn…objects, fabric an woood are juxtaposed wid images an words from a welllspring of personal iconografeee an life alll around meee…

it is an unendinnn batttle to creeeAte emoshonal, aesthetick an conceptual b a l a n c e; sumtimes deee souls scale needs reee-setttinnn…but innn deee meeen time WAT YOU SEEE IS WAT YOU GET…wid out apologeee…

words riiing wid a visual ridddim dat sumtimes build texture by transforminnn deee surface into obbsesssiv pattterninnn…

deee visual an deee verbal meeet; holdinnn conversayshannns wid vexayshannn an virtue…violence an vishannn…

To see more of booops’s work visit http://sardinesart.com/