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On Richard Rawlins Gotcha  at Alice Yard, Woodbrook, Port of Spain Once more, art confronts us with the intersection of ideas. Richard Rawlins' recent exhibition, Gotcha , raised questions over the place of modern practices of design within the traditional realm of art and painting, of politics and art and of installation work and non-traditional formats for creating design and for expression (specially designed lapel buttons are part of the work). The work, recently shown at Alice Yard, comprised a series of politically-themed paintings ( are any paintings not concerned with politics? ) displayed in various spaces within the Woodbrook backyard space. The work used simple designs ( are there such things? ) which pushed quite close to iconography (the artist plans a series of limited edition prints to be sold at a later event in a few months time). White elephants, dangling flies that become pianos, non-performing arts academies and lego politicians all suggest what we all know...

Not nice RR. Not nice at all. SEE MORE here .

FROM THE ORGANISERS: Now almost as globally ubiquitous as the “Made in China” stamp, Chinese construction workers are changing the landscape, both internationally and here in Trinidad and Tobago. In his new body of work, artist Richard Rawlins offers a visual commentary on this phenomenon. Chinese Worker opens at Alice Yard on Thursday 26 August at 7.00 pm, and runs until Saturday 28. The opening night will include a special performance by Dave Williams. Rawlins says: “Chinese Worker is another one of my investigations into the things that make us Trinidad. I actually admire what they have done. And, putting all the political footballs aside, we are left with structures that they built almost overnight.  Whether you like it or not, they are now on our landscape, and I think that needs to be recorded.” About the artist Richard Rawlins is a visual artist, graphic designer, and photographer. He has worked in advertising for the last twenty years. He is the publisher of the online maga...

For this year's recently concluded Erotic Art Week, Richard Rawlin s did a series of paintings . FIND out more here .   ALSO check Richard's work for Erotic Art Week 2009, the really cool project SPACE FOR RENT . 

Ahem. I'd rather let Richard Rawlins explain. SEE more here .

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Richard Rawlin's political buttons go on sale at Alice Yard next week Friday Ninety-nine buttons up on a wall, ninety-nine buttons upon a wall, before the night’s done, you should have bought them all, ninety-nine buttons bought off the wall Ok, FIND out more at this post here . Or  WATCH this teaser video here .

Richard Rawlin's political buttons Richard Rawlins is holding his first exhibition at Alice Yard, Woodbrook, Port-of-Spain, NEXT WEEK Friday. "On this eve of silly season I'm launching the BUTTON PROJECT ," he says. "It takes the shape of a multi-media exhibit, two short films and an exhibition of 99 buttons representative of my political musings over the years. The work is for sale as well. Hope to see you there." READ more at Richard's ARTZPUB blog here . If you want to have a riot CHECK out this essay on the relationship between art and politics here .