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Sireita Mullings
Has been practicing art and design from an early age. Whilst her early ambitions were to become a juvenile lawyer, she recalls decorating jeans and plimsolls with bleach and sequins before leaving for Jamaica at the age of 15. Creating client greeting cards in her grandmother’s back yard under the ackee tree in Montego bay for LOJ (life of Jamaica) insurance company became her new past time whilst doing O Levels at the Montego Bay High school.
After completing her Bachelors degree in visual arts at the Edna Manly College and UWI (University of the West Indies) her major being graphic design and photography she landed her first industry job as a print and web designer at Info Exchange New Media Business Solutions in Kingston Jamaica Simultaneously she was active in arts summer projects in both London and Jamaica whilst practicing and teaching photography part time. Sireita was an active member of the UWI camera club and participant in the annual Jamaica Festival Competition. Her work has been exhibited internationally and locally in the following exhibitions;
• 1997 UWI Camera Club exhibition and competition (award 2 merits)
• 1998 Young Generations exhibition, Mutual Life Gallery. Jamaica
• 1998 Festival exhibition, Crown Plaza Hotel. Jamaica
• 1999 International Women’s day exhibition, Philip Sherlock Centre. Jamaica
• 1999 JCDC Jamaican Cultural Development Exhibition and competition (Silver medallist)
• 2000 NG annual exhibition, National Gallery of Jamaica
• 2002 Movements exhibition, Miami. Florida
• 2003 The Jamaican Influence exhibition, Fridge Gallery. London
• 2004 Open exhibition, Betty Morton Gallery. London
• 2005 Historicism exhibition, 198 Gallery. London
• 2006 Open exhibition, Betty Morton Gallery. London
• 2007 National Gallery annual Jamaica Cultural Development exhibition. Jamaica
In 2001 she returned to the UK to pursue postgraduate study in multimedia. Upon completing her MSc in 2003 she was introduced to the youth sector by way of the Youth Advocate Programme where she worked as a youth advocate and mentor to young offenders. It was here she unleashed her creative skills by way of receiving funding from the Neighbourhood Renewal Project to initialise her first creative project entitled Digital Expressions.
Digital Expressions exposed young people to the uses of digital photography, graphic and web design. The project enabled young people to gain new skills discover and display their potential in the local Brixton gallery. Sireita has continued to develop creative projects and deliver workshops and training with in the boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark with organisations such as the 198 Gallery’s Urban Vision Project, Whippersnappers, Live Magazine, Artefacts Edutainment, The African Community Partnership, the Winslade Youth Project Nu beyond’s Reggae Dancehall project and recently the Four Corners Project with the National Portrait Gallery and the 198. She currently teaches multimedia at Lambeth College. Graphic, web design and photography play a major role in her life as she is director and creative insighter “designer” for her small company Creative Insights.
Through the development of her work, her interests in the role and impact of the arts on socially excluded groups have led her to PhD study where she is currently enrolled as an MPhil student at Goldsmiths College researching the arts as a tool for social inclusion in the Visual Sociology department.
Sireita is currently developing a body of work which conveys personal renditions during her attempt to deconstruct the notion of the arts as a tool for inclusion through the voice of the excluded.
Sireita Mullings
T: 07737298686
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www.insightscreated.com
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