Andrew Trimingham
Bacardi Limited Biennal at the Bermuda National GalleryBacardi Limited Biennial 2002Artists featured in the Bermuda National Gallery's BiennialsBacardi Ltd.Biennial 1994Biennial 1996Bacardi Biennial 1998Bacardi Ltd Biennial 2000

looking back by andrew trimingham

Looking Back

bonded bronze
46.5 x 21 x 13.5 inches


Andrew Trimingham Bermudian, born December 29, 1934


artist statement
I am on public record as disapproving of artist's statements. If the artist's work does not speak for itself, words will not help. My sculpture in this show is intended to represent a slave as he might have looked back over the ocean across which he had just been forcibly transported.

education
1941-46 Saltus Grammar School
1947- Beachborough Preparatory School, Bracley, England
1948-53 Stowe School, Buckingham, England
1953-56 Brasenose College, Oxford, BA in jurisprudence
late 1950s Pupil of Bermudian sculptress Byllee Lang
1998 to present National Academy School of Fine Art, New York

selected group exhibitions
Bermuda Society of Arts shows

achievements
Design concept for the architectural setting of Byllee Lang's reredos in the Bermuda cathedral (in which he was the model for the sculpture of St. Andrew)
1959- Bermuda's 350th Anniversary celebrations, costumle design for "The Island's Mine", based on Shakespeare's "The Tempest"
1960- Bermuda festival, costume design for "The taming of the Shrew"
1960-65 freelance costume design in professional theatre
1965- New York Shakespeare Festival costum department, responsible for unusual sculptures requirements
from 1972 Bermuda Musical and Dramatic Society, Donel Productions, Ad Hoc Productions, set designer, costume designer, actor, director, including "Man for all Seasons", the profits from which provided the intercom system and seed money for the counter-weight system in the City Hall Theatre
1984- Bermuda Festival, design and direction of "The Tempest" for Bermuda's 375th anniversary season

additional information
Thaught course in professional theatrical costum construction
1980/90s - Mid Ocean News art critic