Inansi

INANSI - (Nancy Burke)

MIXED MEDIA ARTIST: acrylics, pastels, assemblage, collage, ceramics, portraits, photography, poetry

Style: Enjoys diversity - and prefers to work in medium scale. Intuitive abstract expressionism, composed figurative 3D assemblages

Installations inspired by Jamaican text & texture. Incorporates graffiti and street-type signage with re-cycled disposable materials & paint - mostly based on Jamaican urban, beach or country life themes

Exhibitions:

• Jamaica Visual Arts Competition - 2012-2016
• (1st place prize Jury winner 2013)
• Liguanea Art Festival - 2012-2014
• The Studio (Montego Bay) - solo 2015
• Olympia Gallery (Kingston) group 2015
• Kingston On The Edge (KOTE) 2008-2016
• What's On Cafe - (solo) Kingston 2013- 2014
• Round Hill Gallery - (solo) Montego Bay

Background:

2014-2016  Commissioned pieces: Country Country & Tensing Pen resorts, Negril, Jamaica  and several private collections

2004 -2012 Workshop/studio: in Walkers Wood, St Ann, Jamaica. Designed & produced unique items for home and personal accessories under the ART*BEAT label

1980’s  Designed & produced Bob Marley floats for West-Indian American Labor Day Parade, Brooklyn NY

60’s Hornsey College of Art, London, UK -(Fashion /Textile Design)

Collection: These (5) traditional still-lifes on paper - are part of a series done purely for the challenge & joys of pastel painting (2015)

YouTube video Inansi gallery exhibition 'International She' https://youtu.be/TmKxqEk9PUI