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Biography

Sarah Beckett is an artist and film director (educative documentaries on the arts).

She trained in France and England: Ecole de Beaux Arts (Dessin) Fontainbleau France, Byam Shaw School of Art London, (Fine Art) St. Martins School of Art (Graphics) London, Chelsea College of Art London where she gained her degree in Mural Design.  

She has exhibited in Europe, the Far East, the USA and throughout the Caribbean , representing Trinidad in Atlanta, USA and in Carifesta IX in 2007. Her work was showcased at the The Summit of the Americas Exhibition 2009 in Trinidad and her work is currently on display on the walls of The Trinidad Oval Cricket Ground and the Hyatt Hotel Waterfront Project, as part of The People’s Canvas, a Trinidad & Tobago Art Society initiative of taking art out of the gallery and onto the street.  

To date, Beckett has made two films: ‘Alabaster Moon’, the second of a quartet of Educative Documentary on the arts, which was premiered at the Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival 2008. This is now distributed throughout the Caribbean and slated for BBC Television, England. In 2007, ‘Like an Angel’s Wing’, was showcased in Trinidad, Guyana & London.

Currently Beckett is preparing for her third film in this quartet of Educative Documentaries on the arts, Almond Blossom (Working Title) to be shot in Spain and Trinidad.

In 2006, Beckett’s Educative Creative Outreach (ECO) Programme for art initiatives for NGO’s, won the British Petroleum (BPtt) Soca Award.

In 2005 Beckett founded, and is Creative Director of, Trinidad Quartet Productions, a charitable organisation dedicated to Educative Creative Outreach initiatives and promotion of the arts through film, books and multi-arts events and performances.

In 2001 Beckett and John Vanneste, pianist, formed Polyphony, a creative alliance exploring the relationship between art and music. They produced five multi-arts in Trinidad including a tour of Guyana and London.

In 1994/5 Beckett, in collaboration with Theatre PKF, ran ‘The Engine Room’ providing a forum for collaborative creative events staged at Beckett’s studio in London. They featured among their productions The Poems of Lorca & Spanish Classical Guitar, Readings from Boswell and Rapso Poems by Grenadian Poet, ‘Malik’ Delano de Coteau.

She has taught Fine Art at The University of the West Indies, designed and conducted Educative Creative Outreach programmes for NGOs, and is a member of the Trinidad & Tobago Art Society.

Between 1988 - 1990  she was sponsored  to exhibit and paint for three months each year in Singapore and Malaysia. In the early eighties she designed and produced Carnival Bands for The Notting Hill Gate Carnival in London.    

One Woman Exhibitions Include:

2009    Mango Sonnets  -In2art Gallery Trinidad

2008    Beckett at In2Art Gallery, Trinidad.

2007    Rhapsody in Red, Tides Gallery Barbados.

Like an Angels Wing II – Umana Yana Arts Centre, Guyana

Like an Angel’s Wing I– The Normandie Hotel, Trinidad

2006    Across a Crowded Room – a la Bastille Restaurant, Trinidad

2005    Symphony in Blue Minor II – Horizons Art Gallery Trinidad

Symphony in Blue Minor I – Cox & Co Galerie, Amsterdam

2003    The Magician’s Sleeves – Guardian Life Atrium, Trinidad

2002    Gimme Shelter – Gallery 101, Trinidad

2001`   Paintings from Paradise, Stables Gallery, Birmingham, England

2000    Dreaming in Trinidad – Gallery 101 Trinidad

1997    Cathedrals of Silence II – Sewell Gallery, Oxford, England

Cathedrals of Silence I- Gallery 101, Trinidad

1990    Art Affairs Gallery, Singapore

1989    Fattoria le Terrazze, Ancona, Italy

E & O Gallery, Penang

1988    Art Affairs Singapore

            Christopher Hull Gallery, London

1986    Christopher Hull Gallery, London 

1983    Kappa Galerie, Amsterdam

 

Group Exhibitions include

2009    ASTT ‘Sustainability &  the Elimination of Poverty’ Exhibtion, Trinidad

2009    Summit of the Americas Exhibition, Trinidad

The Peoples Canvas  Hyatt Waterfront Hotel, & Oval Cricket Ground, Trinidad

2008    Art Society Annual Exhibtion,Trinidad

2007    Inaugural Exhibition -  In2Art Gallery, Trinidad

2006    Carifesta IX Art Exhibition, Jena Pierre Complex, Trinidad

2003    Cultural Sensations .Atlanta USA

2000    National Museum of Trinidad & Tobago 38^th Anniversary Exhibition

            International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Trinidad

1989    National Museum Art Gallery, Singapore

            National Art & Design Fair, London

1986    The South Bank, London

1983    British Painting Exhibition, The Mall Galleries, London

            Broad Spectrum, Hilton, Trinidad

 

Public Collections include,

The National Museum of Trinidad & Tobago.  Hyatt Hotel,Waterfront Project Trinidad. The Labour Museum, London. Barclays Bank, British Petroleum, Guardian Life, Sagicor, Neil & Massey, Fitzwilliam, Stone, Furness Smith & Morgan, Pollonais, Blanc, de la Bastide & Jacelon.

 

Beckett’s work has been featured in many publications including,

2008, Front Cover of The Bijou Collection, Trinidad. 2007 Front cover ‘If yah Iron is good you is King’. History of Steelband. Trinidad.   2000,Trinidad & Tobago Postal Service Special Issue of Christmas Stamps. 1998 The Amoco Art Collection & The Women Artists Diary UK.

Calendars. 2006 The Shelter, Trinidad. 2004 The Magicians Sleeves . 1998 Trinidad  Mutual Life Assurance, Trinidad