Activity: Lecture
Date: Tuesday 23rd January 2018
Host: Moray House Trust
Akima McPherson is a multi-media artist and a Lecturer at the University of Guyana in the Division of Creative Arts. She lecturers on the history of art, theories of art and art appreciation. McPherson has also written on art in Guyana for the Stabroek News, and for local and regional exhibition catalogues. McPherson trained as a painter at the E.R Burrowes School of Art, Guyana (1999), then at the University of Guyana (2001). In 2010 she received a Commonwealth Scholarship to pursue a one-year MA in the United Kingdom. In September 2011, she completed the MA Art and Space at Kingston University, London.
Akima’s talk was entitled, Critical approaches to visual art with reference to works in the Guyana National Collection. In it, she explored concepts such as illusionistic space and decorative space and how far art must be appreciated within its particular context.
Video clip: Critical Approaches to Visual Art