Petrine Archer-Straw

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Petrine Archer-Straw
Born(1956-12-26)26 December 1956
Birmingham, England
Died5 December 2012(2012-12-05) (aged 55)
Mona, Jamaica
OccupationCurator and art historian
Website
petrinearcher.com

Petrine Archer-Straw (26 December 1956 – 5 December 2012) was a British artist,

Eddie Chambers: "In her work as an artist, academic, art historian, writer and curator, Archer-Straw consistently challenged the prevailing orthodoxies that treat Caribbean artists and cultural practice in geographical, racial and artistic isolation. In essence, her position was that we cannot fully understand or appreciate the practice of Caribbean artists without due consideration of broader factors such as migration, history, identity and, above all diaspora – the scattering of many black people beyond their ancestral homeland of Africa."[2]

Early life

Petrine Archer-Straw was born in

British National Front and the family subsequently moved to Jamaica in the early 1970s,[1] where Archer-Straw finished high school and started university.[4]

Education

Archer-Straw earned a theology, history, sociology B.A. degree at the

Courtauld Institute at the University of London, where she earned an M.A. in art history and a PhD (art history modern, Negrophilia, 1994–95).[5]

Academic career

Archer-Straw published numerous books and catalogues, including Eugene Palmer (October 1993, in collaboration with Jane Norrie), New World Imagery (October 1995), Negrophilia: Avant-Garde Paris and Black Culture in the 1920s (November 2000),

Cornell. She taught the Caribbean Dialogs Live! course at TASP 2008 (Telluride Association Summer Program) with Professor Petrina Dacres.[9]

Negrophilia

Archer-Straw's book Negrophilia: Avant-Garde Paris and Black Culture in the 1920s focused on the fashion for African artefacts, themes and emblems in

Pitchfork said: "its best moments are stellar and exhilarating" and scored it 7.2/10.[11]

Curator

In addition to her academic work, Dr Archer-Straw was a consultant for the development of the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas,[12] and also curated numerous exhibits mainly related to Caribbean art and Jamaican art, including:[13]

  • October Gallery, London: Home and Away: 7 Jamaican Artists (1994–95)
  • Royal Academy of Art
    , London: Africa: The Art of a Continent (1994–95)
  • Hayward Gallery, South Bank Centre: New World Imagery: Contemporary Jamaican Art (1995–96)
  • The British Council
    : Photos and Phantasms: Harry Johnston’s Photographs of the Caribbean (1997–98)
  • National Art Gallery of the Bahamas: One Man's Vision: The Vincent D'Aguilar Collection (2000)
  • National Art Gallery of the Bahamas: Past, Present, Personal: The Dawn Davies Collection (2002)
  • College Art Gallery, EMCVPA: Fifty Years-Fifty Artists (2003–04)
  • College Art Gallery, cage[e], EMCVPA: The Vivian Virtue Collection (2005)

Death

Petrine Archer-Straw died unexpectedly, aged 55, on 5 December 2012 at

sickle-cell crisis.[14]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c "A tribute to Petrine Archer-Straw" Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Jamaica Observer, 23 December 2012.
  2. ^ Eddie Chambers, "Petrine Archer-Straw, In Memoriam, (1956–2012)". Extracted from obituary in Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, 32, Spring 2013.
  3. ^ a b Back to Black, p. 35.
  4. ^ a b c Back to Black, p. 36.
  5. ^ from Archer-Straw’s official website
  6. ^ a b Michael Rogin, "Mon Pays", London Review of Books, Vol. 23, No. 4, 22 February 2001, pp. 21–23.
  7. ^ List of Books published by Petrine Archer-Straw, on Amazon.
  8. ^ "Petrine Archer-Straw's Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Archived from the original on 15 August 2009. Retrieved 17 August 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  9. ^ Telluride Association TASP 2008 Brochure. Archived 21 November 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ^ Dave Segal, "Mike Ladd: Negrophilia: The Album" (review), Jazz Times, March 2005,
  11. ^ a b Joe Tangari, "Mike Ladd: Negrophilia" (review), Pitchfork, 30 January 2005.
  12. ^ Erica Wells, "Art historian who worked closely with NAGB dies", The Nassau Guardian, 8 December 2012.
  13. ^ "Petrine Archer-Straw's Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Archived from the original on 15 August 2009. Retrieved 17 August 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  14. ^ "In-Memoriam: Dr. Petrine Archer-Straw", ARC Magazine, 5 December 2012.

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