#steve ouditt

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~Sexypink~ Steve Ouditt  is going to be speaking at a global conference on behaviour change strategy this Friday. Tune in for his, and many other fascinating talks and panel discussions from some of the world leaders in this area! http://www.thenowfest.com/index.html

We’re collaborating with Steve Ouditt, our third highlighted designer from the DO Archive, to produce a 30th anniversary reprint of one of his classic posters. Printing sponsored by SCRIP-J. More on posters and partnerships in the coming days!

Steve Ouditt Art/Design is located in Port of Spain Trinidad. Artist, Designer and Curator Steve Ouditt’s installations have been exhibited in juried shows in Cuba, China, New York, London, Manchester, Glasgow, Iceland, Dominican Republic, Cologne, Kassel, Guadeloupe and Jamaica. He is currently working on projects which unify his disciplines (installation art and design) with behavioural science, design for social change, social entrepreneurship, and exhibition design. Steve’s London exhibition “Creole Processing Zone” opened in 2000, with a feature address delivered by the late Professor Stuart Hall. His iconographic work ‘Ralph D Evader’ was selected in 1997 as part of the prestigious British New Contemporaries- making him one of the few Caribbean artists to have ever been included in the British New Contemporaries. One of Ouditt’s most recent and highly successful works- born out of long discussions with political economist Lloyd Best, “Plantation Economy and Trademark Capital”, was shown at the Havana Biennale in Cuba in 2010. Steve was Curator of Research and Education at the Institute of International Visual Arts [inIVA], in London. He also lectured at the Caribbean School of Architecture, Jamaica; and on the Masters Programme in Tropical Architecture at the Universidad Nacional Pedro Henrique Urena in Santo Domingo. He has been lecturing at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine since 2003. Steve holds a BFA Honours degree from The School of Visual Arts in New York; an MA Distinction from Goldsmiths College in London where his MA supervisor was the internationally renowned curator Professor Sarat Maharaj. Ouditt was subsequently a researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, Holland.

DS 20, ably designed by the excellent Kriston Chen, is out now. Edited by Mariel Brown and published by Richard Rawlins, this issue features fiction from Sharon Millar, art by Sheena Rose, Ewan Avery, Kriston and much more! Am also pleased to be included in this 20th issue via a review of Trinidad artist Steve Ouditt's latest show at Medulla Gallery (special thanks to Kriston for his company on a recent visit to the Medulla space). CHECK it all out here.

With recent events, the subject of mental health has been thrust into the spotlight both abroad and in Trinidad and Tobago. Such happenings as the mass murder at Sandy Hook Elementary school in Connecticut, the release of the Academy award-nominated film Silver Linings Playbook, which features a number of characters with mental health issues, and the carting off of Cheryl Miller – an employee of the Ministry of Gender, Youth and Child Development – to the St Ann’s Psychiatric Hospital after an outburst at her job, have all stirred conversations about emotional, psychological and social well-being. Artist Steve Ouditt engages with these concerns in his latest exhibition entitled Steve Ouditt Proceeds to Mental Health. His display of 133 drawings and collages will open to the public on Thursday March 7, 2013 at Medulla Art Gallery, 37 Fitt Street Woodbrook, Port of Spain. It is Ouditt’s first solo exhibition in Trinidad, in eighteen years. more