ROY CROSSE (1945-2014) painter, sculptor

Trinidad

Painter, sculptor, writer, and musician Roy Crosse was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad. He attended the Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in Toronto, Canada. In 1979, he returned to the West Indies to teach painting at the Jamaica School of Art while on a fellowship with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. His works are in many public and private collections. In the artist’s words: 

“Mindful sense of place and history and the machinations of an ever-changing environment, I have tried to find common ground between an increasingly complex world politic, and the more fundamental aspects of contemporary life. The common use of new technologies has impacted just about every aspect of human activity, from the way we work and play to the ways we live and design new communities, and yet, so much of how we resolve conflict can depend on the most arcane of human practices; the habit of violence and war.  I work in a wide range of media that support flat and three-dimensional work and I try to address some of these issues.”