Hope Brooks: Five Decades of the Artist’s Work

Hope Brooks: Five Decades of the Artist's Work... takes us into the world of a singular artist, part of that second-generation of Jamaicans who helped to bestow shape and substance to a still fledgling, although often endangered, movement in the visual culture of an island. - Courtney A. Hogarth, Ph.D., / artist, poet, and scholar

About the author

Hope Brooks, painter. Born June 22, 1944, Kingston, Jamaica. Hope is the retired Vice Principal of the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts (EMCVPA), Kingston, Jamaica-having joined the staff of the College in 1967. She has had eleven solo exhibitions and participated in many international and local group exhibitions in the past forty years. Her awards include the Institute of Jamaica Silver Musgrave Medal for contribution to the development of art in Jamaica and the Lifetime Achievement Award presented by EMCVPA in 2022. Brooks currently lives and works in Kingston, Jamaica.

Product details

• Authors: Hope Brooks
• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.05.2025
• EAN: 9781035837236
• ISBN: 978-1-0358-3723-6
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 216 mm x 279 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 718 g
• Illustrations: 0
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre > Biographies, autobiographies