Butcher, Ras Ishi (b. ): Bio info sheet; exhibition announcements/invitations/brochures; magazine articles; photo of one of his paintings; correspondence with Anne Walmsley,
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Butcher, Ras Ishi (b. ): Bio info sheet; exhibition announcements/invitations/brochures; magazine articles; photo of one of his paintings; correspondence with Anne Walmsley, , Box: 2, Folder: Anne Walmsley Collection, SC The Alma Jordan Library, The University of the West Indies .
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Butcher, Ras Ishi (b. ): Bio info sheet; exhibition announcements/invitations/brochures; magazine articles; photo of one of his paintings; correspondence with Anne Walmsley, , Box: 2, Folder: Anne Walmsley Collection, SC The Alma Jordan Library, The University of the West Indies . Accessed March 21,
Barbadian artist Ras Ishi Butcher (b. ) often reflects concern regarding issues of race, identity, and social injustices in his paintings. In a style that he has labeled as "Fauvist," (in reference to Matisse and Derain’s movement where color theory takes central stage) Butcher uses and manipulates different materials in his works, giving them a style that transitions between painting and craft.
At the beginning of his career, Butcher worked in Barbados' sugar-cane fields for two years to pay for his art studies, a landscape that was to serve as inspiration for several of his paintings. Using almost exclusively a black-and-white color palette and with a composition marked by two main sections, "A New Day" is a geometric and symbolic interpretation of the hard life in Barbadian plantations, both during the colonial period and the present, and the hope that the new day will bring a better future. The red star shining brightly, as well as the use of the same color and texture for both the main character and the sky, strengthens the idea of overcoming current dominance structures.
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At the First Caribbean and Central American Biennial, held in Santo Domingo in , artists from 30 countries submitted paintings. One of the very few who walked away with Gold, was 33 year old, Ras Ishi Butcher. Before , he had studied art at the Barbados Community College&#;s Division of Fine Art and exhibited in several shows in his native Barbados, United States, and Latin America; including Gallery Caribe in Philadelphia and California, the Havana Biennial and the Art Collection Foundation, Barbados. In , he and his colleague, Ras Akyem I Ramsay, attended the Second Biennial in Santo Domingo, the Fourth Havana Biennial as well as exhibiting in &#;Art Of The Diaspora: Barbados Emerges&#; at Gallery, Soho, NYC. Ras Ishi&#;s sensational one man show, &#;Isolation&#;, held April in Barbados, was described as: &#;Explorations in the possibilities of the self, that have opened up for him new possibilities of artistic expression.&#; In , Ras Ishi completed post-graduate studies in fine art at the prestigious University of Superior Studies (ISA), Havana, Cuba. His work has been published and discussed in such publications as “Barbadian Art: What Kind of Mirror Image?” by Allison Thomp
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In the United States they have pop culture and Madonna, in the Caribbean we have Fidel and Bob Marley. Several of my friends: born in the late fifties, were named Fidel or Che, regardless of the political affiliation of their parents.
Going to Cuba is still a big adventure. As one friend told me: &#;Wait till you see the plane – it so old, it have curtains over the windows.&#; Sitting in the old Avro that did the crossing from Kingston was like being in a blender. When the food trays appeared, Ishi Butcher, a rastafarian artist from Barbados, looked at the food in dismay, pushing it aside, and said: &#;Dem Spanish, bare pork, man.&#;
But to be selected to take part in the Havana Biennial is a major opportunity for any young artist, quite apart from the excitement of visiting Cuba.
The Havana Biennial was established almost a decade ago as an alternative to the mainstream international art events such as the Venice Biennial. At many of these exhibitions, art from Latin America and the Caribbean was perceived as underdeveloped, of minor interest. The term &#;regional art&#; was disparagingly applied.
The Havana exhibition set out to sho
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