Stanley Greaves

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Stanley Greaves is a painter and writer who was born in a "tenement yard" on Carmichael Street, Georgetown, Guyana. He studied Art in the UK and was head of the Division of Creative Arts at the University of Guyana for several years. He left Guyana in the 1980s and has been resident in Barbados since that time.

He is one of the Caribbean’s most distinguished artists with major exhibitions in the UK (The Elders, with Brother Everald Brown) and Europe as well as throughout the Caribbean. He works mainly in painting, but has also produced sculpture, drawings, prints and pottery. In addition to his poetry and painting, he is also an accomplished classical guitarist.

He taught at Queen's College from 1971 to 1975, and was Head of the Division of Creative Arts at the University of Guyana from 1975 to 1987.

He was awarded the Golden Arrow of Achievement by the Government of Guyana in 1975. In 1979 we won a Fulbright Award from Howard University.

His collection of poetry, Horizons, was published by Peepal Tree Press in 2002.

[edit] References

  • Rupert Roopnarine. Stanley Greaves of Guyana - A Caribbean Master. El Dorado, April 1995.


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