About the artist:

Born 12 October, 1945 in Saint Lucia, West Indies MEMBERSHIPS Order of the British Empire by Her Majesty the Queen for service in the field of art Saint Lucia Environment Development Awareness Council, Founding Member Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada, Life Member PRINCIPAL EXHIBITIONS 1971 The Commonwealth Institute, London, UK Oxford University, Oxford, UK School of Asian and African Studies, Sussex University, Sussex, UK 1972 Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA The Studio Museum, New York, USA Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK Third British International Print Biennale, Bradford, UK 1973 The Oxford Gallery, Oxford, UK International Play School, United Nations, New York, USA Gallery III, Montreal, Canada Saratoga Gallery, New York, USA 1974 Mazelow Gallery, Toronto, Canada 1975 Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Canada 1976 Mazelow Gallery, Toronto, Canada Charles H. Write Museum of African American History (formerly the Afro-American Historical Museum), Detroit, USA Howard University, Washington, D.C., USA 1977 African American Museum in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, USA Anamon Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada Howard University, Washington, D.C., USA Piedmont College, North Carolina, USA (in parallel to a lecture by Alex Haley) 1979 Camera on Mass. Ave, Boston, USA (conceptual) 1982 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Canada 1984 Five War Dances, Saint Lucia, West Indies (conceptual) 1991 Saint Lucia National Trust: Project Helen, Saint Lucia, West Indies 1992 Spedale Degli Innocenti, Florence, Italy 1993 Barbados Museum, Barbados, West Indies Patrick Cramer Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland New York Design Center, New York, USA 1994 Mutual Gallery, New Kingston, Jamaica The Contemporary Print Show, London, UK 1996 Harmony Hall, Gallery, Saint Mary, Jamaica 1997 Saint Lucia Fine Art, Saint Lucia 1998 Saint Lucia Fine Art, Saint Lucia 1999 Saint Lucia Fine Art, Saint Lucia 2000 Caribbean Art Gallery, Saint Lucia 2001 Caribbean Art Gallery, Saint Lucia 2002 Caribbean Art Gallery, Saint Lucia 2003 Caribbean Art Gallery, Saint Lucia 2004 Art & Antiques, Saint Lucia 2005 Back to Black, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK 2007 Albemarle Gallery, London, UK 2009 Caribbean Art Gallery, Saint Lucia PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Museum of Modern Art, New York Studio Museum, New York American Museum of Natural History, New York Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada Howard University, Washington, DC Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK Victoria & Albert Museum, London Ulster Museum, Belfast Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool Wolverhampton Art Gallery, UK Sussex University, Sussex, UK Oxford University, Oxford State Department, Washington, DC Union Theological College, Columbia University, New York Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Canada University of the West Indies, Jamaica National Gallery, Jamaica Barbados Museum, Barbados US Embassy, Barbados Saint Lucia National Trust, Saint Lucia SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Lucie-Smith, E. and Stokes-Sims, L. (2007) Llewellyn Xavier: His Life and Work, CITY: Macmillan Caribbean Cummins, A. and Thompson, A. (1999) Art in Barbados, CITY: Ian Randle Publishers Gall, T. (2009) Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life: Americas. Farmington Hills: Gale Third Text, No. 78, Volume 20, Issue 1, January 2006 The Courier, Commission of the European Communities, Issue 189, 2001 Poupeye, V. (ed) Caribbean Art. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1998. Research in African Literatures, volume 31, African and Afro-American Studies and Research Center, University of Texas, 2000 Keen, M. and Ward, L., eds. (1996) Recordings: A Select Bibliography of Contemporary African, Afro-Caribbean and Asian British Art, London: Iniva and Chelsea College of Art Walmsley, A. (1992), The Caribbean Artists Movement: A Literary and Cultural History 1966-1972. London: New Beacon Books Archer-Shaw, P., Bailey, D., and Richard J. Back to Black: Art, Cinema and the Racial Imaginary. (2005) Exhibition catalogue. Whitechapel Gallery, London: Whitechapel Gallery. Davies, H. (2001) A Walk Around the West Indies. London: Orion Money, G. (1990) Nine Lives of a Bush Banker. London: Merlin Books Ltd.