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Jamaica Biennial 2017 – Invited Artists: Storm Saulter

Storm Saulter – The World is Yours (2016)

We continue to share our archives on the Jamaica Biennial 2017, which closed recently.

Storm Saulter was born in 1983, in Westmoreland, Jamaica. Saulter attended the Los Angeles Film School, graduating in 2001. He is a filmmaker, photographer, visual artist and the writer and director of the award-winning feature film Better Mus’ Come (2010). In 2011, he was awarded the Gleaner Honour Award in Entertainment as well as the Viewers’ Choice Award for Best Feature Film at the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival. He was named one of the PSOJ 50 under 50 business leaders shaping Jamaica’s future. Saulter is co-founder of New Caribbean Cinema collective, a group of young Caribbean filmmakers. His experimental films have been exhibited at the British Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art, and the National Gallery of Jamaica. His photography has been published in Rolling Stone magazine, FADER, and Billboard magazine, to name a few. He is currently in post production on his 2nd feature film Sprinter. Saulter lives in St Andrew, Jamaica and Los Angeles, California.

Website: stormsaulter.com

Storm Saulter – Soldiers, Money Ears, The World is Yours (2016, triptych)

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The National Gallery of Jamaica is the oldest and largest public art gallery in the Anglophone Caribbean. It has a comprehensive collection of early, modern and contemporary art from Jamaica along with smaller Caribbean and international holdings. A significant part of its collections is on permanent view. The NGJ also has an active exhibition programme, which includes retrospectives of work by major Jamaican artists, thematic exhibitions, guest-curated exhibitions, touring exhibitions that originate outside of the island, and its flagship exhibition, the Kingston Biennial. The NGJ offers a range of educational services, included guided tours, lectures and panel discussions, and children's art programmes and also operates a gift shop and coffee shop.

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