In this their seventh Conversation, artists Stanley Greaves AA and Akima McPherson examine Roaland Taylor’s sculpture, Shaman and His Medicine, completed in 2004. The Shaman and His medicine will be available for viewing at the National Gallery of Art, Castellani House from Oct 5 – 10.
Akima McPherson: There are those who speak of “Guyanese Art” as though there is a cohesiveness and homogeneity about local art stylistically or thematically or both. I like to think of ‘Art in Guyana,’ as do others, because this allows for the immediate recognition of the diversity that constitutes visual art output both in terms of styles and themes. And currently within the diversity, there are ‘schools’. Roaland Taylor’s Shaman and His Medicine, is part of one such school – the Lokono School which is characterised by sculptors working along a similar aesthetic and
