Ishion Hutchinson is a Jamaican poet and essayist.
Kodwo Eshun is a British-Ghanaian writer, theorist and filmmaker.
Veerle Poupeye is a Belgian-Jamaican art historian, curator and critic specialized in Caribbean art and visual culture. She lives in Kingston, Jamaica, and currently works as an independent curator, researcher, writer and cultural consultant.
Lee Scratch Perry (1936 - 2021) was born in a remote Jamaican village in 1936 and moved to Kingston in 1961 to pursue a career in music after a divine voice directed him there. After founding the infamous Black Ark Studio he produced some of Bob Marley's most renowned songs and became one of the pioneering forces in the development of dub and reggae music. The studio was burned down a few years later, and Perry led a nomadic life before settling between the Swiss countryside. Perry has worked with artists including Bob Marley and the Wailers, Junior Murvin, the Beastie Boys, and The Clash, among many others, and was awarded a Grammy for Best Reggae Album in [...] the end of the Seventies Perry started painting occult symbols and dub-collages around his studio, which gradually developed into a multidisciplinary Gesamtkunstwerk practice. Often imbued with spirituality, Perry's visual output had since taken the form of multi-layered clusters that continually shift and change; creating an ever-expanding network of paradisal animals, cartoon figures and saints using paint, mirrors, rocks, photographs, video and computer-transmitted word-association poems - in a ceaseless quest to venerate the Almighty.
The Visual Estate of Lee Scratch Perry is committed to the preservation and exhibition of the visual oeuvre of Lee Scratch Perry (1936-2021), in its material and non-material form. It aims to make Perry's artistic legacy accessible to scientific reappraisal as well as to the general public and fosters sustained collaborations with international institutions, researchers, galleries, and other key players in the broader art field. The Visual Estate of Lee Scratch Perry is run as a non-profit association based in Switzerland. It is the main contact point and the sole representative of Lee Scratch Perry for all projects relating to his artistic legacy.
Maximage is an award-winning design studio based in [...] create visual identities, books, posters, typefaces, digital solutions, and [...] recent commissions include books for Louis Vuitton, Palace Skateboards, Nike and Kunsthalle Basel.