Rosemary Sullivan the author of “Nevis as We See Her” and “Nevis as We See Her: We Goin’ Good.” Will host her annual photo show at Café De Arts at 7.00 p.m on Monday April 12,2010.
Rosemary, a Canadian national and a visitor to Nevis, for the past 12 years specializes while on Nevis on depicting Nevis and its people in pictures. On April 12, she will display among other photos, the pictures she has taken in 2010.
Her photographs, “Nevis as We See Her:Goin’ to come back” a new book of her photographs along with oral history of folks who love Nevis as she does, photographic images combined with fabric art are now shown at the Café’ des Arts, the Nevis Historical and Conservation Society and the St. Christopher Heritage Society on the islands of St. Kitts/Nevis where she spends the winter, at the Mamaroneck Artists Guild Gift of Art Holiday Show, Larchmont NY and in the summer at Galerie Isle de “paradise”, Pigeon Hill.”
She loves story-telling traditions in all cultures, “story-telling can be through songs or words, live sitting around our living rooms or over kitchen tables or in books or words and images together as in film.”
Rosemary is an advocate for community media since she started 40 years ago. Rosemary’s earliest memory is being rocked on her Grandfather Sullivan’s shoulder as he sang to her in Gaelic. She began sewing at her great grandmother’s knee at 3 years old and when she received her first camera at age nine, as they say, the rest is “her” story.
Grosing up in Chicago Illinois, Larchmont New York, attending school in Greenwich Connecticut, and weekly classes at the Art Students League in New York City, she was moved by many memorable and contrasting images of the world.
The radio, TV and Film program at Northwestern University was followed by marriage, motherhood, finally getting her BA at Concordia, graduate school at McGill University and Universite de Montreal and a career in communications at eh Canadian Broadcasting Institute of Psycho synthesis as well as scores of workshops from New York to the Canadian Arctic using images and imagery for self awareness and self expression.
She feels blessed that she discovered Nevis. Through the envisaged show on April 12, she hopes to reach out to those who have embraced her. A generous sign at her photo shows always reads, “If you find your house, goat, donkey, yourself –take as gift.” She has over the years found Nevis people and the island’s natural beauty irresistible and has captured this.
