The Caribbean Artists Movement ( CAM ) was an influential cultural initiative, begun in London , England , in 1966 and active until about 1972, that focused on the works being produced by Caribbean writers, visual artists, poets, dramatists, film makers, actors and musicians. The key people involved in setting up CAM were Edward Kamau Brathwaite , John La Rose and Andrew Salkey . As Angela Cobbinah has written, "the movement had an enormous impact on Caribbean arts in Britain. In its intense five-year existence it set the dominant artistic trends, at the same time forging a bridge between West Indian migrants and those who came to be known as black Britons."
21-1086: Walmsley is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Anne Walmsley (born 1931), British editor, scholar, critic and author David Walmsley, Canadian journalist, editor of The Globe and Mail David Walmsley, British actor, known for roles in Ben-Hur (2016) and Slow Horses (2022) Emma Walmsley (born 1969), British businesswoman, CEO of GlaxoSmithKline Ian Walmsley (born 1960), British physicist Jim Walmsley (born 1990), American long-distance runner Joan Walmsley (born 1943), British Liberal Democrat politician John S. Walmsley Jr. (1920–1951), U.S. Air Force bomber pilot, Medal of Honor recipient Jon Walmsley (born 1956), British-American musician and actor Joshua Walmsley (1794–1871), English businessman and Liberal Party politician Kerry Walmsley (born 1973), New Zealand cricketer Leo Walmsley (1892–1966), English writer Richard Walmsley (born 1962), English record producer and songwriter, member of
42-498: A few painters, designers and sculptors from the Caribbean; but no one seemed to know how to get in touch with them. In addition it seemed to me that our West Indian artists were not participating significantly in the cultural life of the country that had become their home. Since 1950, nearly every West Indian novelist worth the name had come to London and more than a hundred books had come from their typewriters and pens. But despite this,
63-515: Is among a younger generation of Caribbean writers to have been inspired by CAM during the early 1970s. Walmsley has written a comprehensive appraisal of the movement in The Caribbean Artists Movement, 1966–1972: A Literary and Cultural History (1992), published by New Beacon Books. CAM is acknowledged as being particularly significant in helping to "spark interest in the work of Britain's artists of color". The first CAM conference
84-668: Is considered to be a "groundbreaking study". In addition she taught part of an MA course, "Aspects of Caribbean Art", at the School of Oriental and African Studies , University of London , in 2000. Walmsley's articles have appeared in many journals and literary magazines over the years, among them BIM , Wasafiri , South , BOMB , ArtsEtc , and elsewhere. She has also contributed essays to exhibition catalogues and has produced critical writings on Caribbean visual artists, especially Aubrey Williams . Her 1990 book Guyana Dreaming , which Williams saw in manuscript 10 days before his death,
105-637: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Anne Walmsley Anne Walmsley (born 1931) is a British-born editor, scholar, critic and author, notable as a specialist in Caribbean art and literature, whose career spans five decades. She is widely recognised for her work as Longman 's Caribbean publisher, and for Caribbean books that she authored and edited. Her pioneering school anthology, The Sun's Eye: West Indian Writing for Young Readers (1968), drew on her use of local literary material while teaching in Jamaica. A participant in and chronicler of
126-847: The Alma Jordan Library at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago . Earlier she had donated her Caribbean Artists Movement (CAM) research material to the George Padmore Institute in London, her correspondence with Caribbean writers over many years to the University of Sussex , and her library of Caribbean literature to the University of Newcastle. Later in 2018, Anne Walmsley donated material to Newcastle University Robinson Library Special Collections and Archives , as part of
147-710: The Beatmasters and Goldbug Robert Walmsley (disambiguation) Syd Walmsley (1896–1973), English rugby league footballer Thomas Walmsley (disambiguation) Wal Walmsley (1916–1978), Australian cricketer Places [ edit ] Walmsley, Virginia , an unincorporated community in Northumberland County Walmsley, Western Australia , a locality in the City of Albany References [ edit ] ^ David Walmsley at IMDb [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
168-745: The Caribbean Artists Movement , Walmsley is also the author of The Caribbean Artists Movement: A Literary and Cultural History, 1966–1971 (1992) and Art in the Caribbean (2010). She lives in London. Anne Walmsley has a BA in English from Durham University , and an MA in African Studies from Sussex University . In the late 1950s, she worked for four years as a secretary at Faber and Faber , before going on to teach for three years at Westwood High School in Jamaica . On returning to London, she
189-460: The Walmsley (Anne) Archive . Walmsley was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of the West Indies , Mona campus, Jamaica, in 2009. The citation stated: "Dr. Anne Walmsley has long crossed over from being a distant enthusiast or detached observer of the still flowering Caribbean literary and artistic tradition: rather we can comfortably recognize her as an integral and active component of
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231-457: The British public didn't seem to be very much aware of the nature and value of this contribution. ...This situation, it seemed to me, was something to be deplored. The isolation of West Indian writers from each other and from the society in which they lived could eventually only stultify development and could do nothing to contribute to perhaps the most important problem of our times – the problem of
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#1732845342899252-755: The Caribbean Artists Movement." At the NGC Bocas Lit Fest in 2018 Walmsley was named as the recipient of the Henry Swanzy Award in recognition of her distinguished service to Caribbean letters. In the words of the Trinidad and Tobago Guardian , reporting the award: "One of the most avid supporters and facilitators of Caribbean literature for many decades, Anne Walmsley shepherded key writers into print during her time at Longman, and her school anthologies exposed generations of Caribbean children to
273-559: The Dutch, French and Spanish Caribbean to secondary school students of the Anglophone Caribbean, its regional span prompted by discussion of such writing in CAM. In 1992 she was awarded a PhD from the University of Kent for her thesis on CAM. That same year it was published as a book by New Beacon Books , entitled The Caribbean Artists Movement: A Literary and Cultural History, 1966–1971 , and
294-656: The UK she took an MA in African Studies at the University of Sussex . She subsequently worked as a freelance editor and consultant, and was also active with ATCAL (the Association for the Teaching of Caribbean and Africa Literature, founded in the late 1970s). In 1985 she began research into CAM, funded by a Leverhulme Fellowship . Another landmark anthology, Facing the Sea (1986), co-edited by Walmsley (with Nick Caistor), introduced writing from
315-659: The anthology went on to secure an ongoing presence on school syllabuses. Caribbean writers published at Longman's on Walmsley's watch include Roy Heath (whose first novel, A Man Come Home , she took on in 1974), George Lamming , Samuel Selvon and Ismith Khan . During this time Walmsley participated in the Caribbean Artists Movement (CAM), founded in 1966 by Kamau Brathwaite (known then L. Edward Brathwaite), John La Rose and Andrew Salkey . After 10 years as Longman's Caribbean publisher, she spent two years in Nairobi as Publishing Manager for Longman Kenya, and on her return to
336-498: The future of race relations in Britain." The BBC radio programme Caribbean Voices , to which Brathwaite was also a contributor, is considered a precursor of CAM. The journal Savacou was started as a platform for CAM, connecting its activities in Britain, the Caribbean region and the African diaspora , and elsewhere internationally. La Rose began selling and publishing books, under
357-519: The literature of their home region." Caribbean Artists Movement In 1968, Brathwaite wrote about CAM's origins, dating them back to a small informal meeting held on 19 December 1966 in his London flat in Mecklenburgh Square (although Louis James suggests that the "seed ideas of what was to become CAM were germinating in Brathwaite's activities at Mona in the previous decade"): "What
378-504: The name New Beacon Books , which addressed the demand for material that was stimulated by the formation of CAM. Other notable artists and intellectuals associated with CAM include C. L. R. James , Stuart Hall , Wilson Harris , Kenneth Ramchand , Ronald Moody , Aubrey Williams , Gordon Rohlehr , Christopher Laird , Louis James, Clifton Campbell, Orlando Patterson , Ivan Van Sertima , Althea McNish , Donald Hinds , James Berry , Errol Lloyd and Anne Walmsley . Linton Kwesi Johnson
399-503: Was employed for a while with the BBC Schools television service, before joining the publisher Longman in 1967 as their first editor for the Caribbean, focused on providing local educational material, in which role she travelled throughout the region for nine years. Her experience teaching in Jamaica between 1959 and 1963 informed her compilation of the anthology The Sun's Eye , which drew on Caribbean literary material; published in 1968,
420-588: Was the first significant publication on the artist's work. She co-edited Art in the Caribbean: an Introduction with Stanley Greaves , in collaboration with Christopher Cozier, launching the volume at the October Gallery in October 2010. In 2016–17, she donated her collection of documents on Caribbean art – including exhibition catalogues, photographs, interviews and correspondence with artists, and other papers – to
441-534: Was to become the Caribbean Artists Movement (CAM) started in December 1966 in my Bloomsbury basement flat. I had recently arrived from the Caribbean on study leave to Britain, and as a writer myself, wanted, quite naturally, to get in touch with as many Caribbean artists as possible. But where were they? The novelists’ books were being regularly published; at the Commonwealth Arts Festival I had seen work by
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