Young Talent V: Caroline ‘bops’ Sardine

bops, you mek yuh branka so lie (2009)

Caroline Sardine, better known as ‘bops’ is the fourth artist in Young Talent V to be featured on this blog. Her section is curated by NGJ Chief Curator, Dr. David Boxer. Please note that bops uses a personal, poetic orthography, which is partially based on Creole, in her writings – she calls it “word powah.” She writes her name “bops” with a lower case “b” and the date format “20010″ is also deliberate.

Biography

Caroline ‘bops’ Sardine was born 1977 in St.Vincent and the Grenadines. she attained an Associate Degree in Fine Art from the Barbados Community College, Barbados in 1996, a Diploma in Painting from the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, Jamaica in 1998 and a Masters Degree in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London, England in 2001. She lived and worked in London until returning to St.Vincent and the Grenadines in 2003. She has exhibited in several Group Shows in London and Wales and participated in the Triangle Arts, Cyfunaid International Artist Workshop in Wales in 2001. She was selected as one of the final 12 artists for the Trinidad and Tobago CLICO 2004 Corporate Art Calendar. She  lived and worked in St.Vincent and the Grenadines until coming to Jamaica in June 2009 and is currently volunteering at the Ocho Rios Methodist Basic School…and creating, painting, assembling a body of work…