Jane Bryce (University of the West Indies, Cave Hill)
Caroline ‘bops’ Sardine is a young Vincentian artist working in the media of painting, installation and assemblage employing an iconography redolent of violence and trauma. The paper is concerned to decode this iconography, and the graffiti-like text which often adorns it, in order not only to tease out its significations, but also to examine how it speaks to textual and artistic conventions employed by other regional artists. By highlighting the dialogue between verbal and visual, it will suggest an intertextuality which goes beyond generic classification.
