Ronald Moody

Ronald Moody ( born August 12, 1900 in Kingston; † 6 February 1984) was a Jamaican sculptor. For most of his life he spent in England.

Life and work

Ronald Clive Moody was born in 1900 in Kingston, Jamaica where he attended Calabar High School. At age 23 he went to study to the King's College in London and studied dentistry at the Royal Hospital Dentist. He began to increasingly interested in philosophy, where it especially the philosophy of China and India interested. In his spare time he began sculpting in wood. It Works produced Where (1934 ), named after a song by Franz Schubert, Johanaan (1936) and Tacet (1938). His works have been recorded in Europe with great interest. His first solo exhibition was held in 1937 by the gallery billet in Paris. It was followed the next year an exhibition in Kunszaal van Lier in Amsterdam and three group exhibitions in Paris 1938-1940 1938. Moody married Helene Cowan and the two moved to Paris to live a life as an artist to begin with. Two days before the German troops occupied Paris both fled by train to Orleans and then moved on foot to Marseille. While his wife was able to return to England, he had to struggle through in several attempts over the Pyrenees to England.

After the war he started with different materials, such as concrete, fiberglass and wax work. Since 1947 he exhibited in London in 1953 and entered the Society of Portrait Sculpture at. At the same time he began his commitment as a television editor and worked for new TV formats at the BBC, such as Calling the West Indies, Letter from London, Caribbean and West Indian Diary Survey. He wrote at this time as articles and reviews of English magazines and worked on a book of traditional African Fulani stories. In the 1960s, Moody began in his work increasingly with his Jamaican home deal. In 1964 he was commissioned a sculpture for the Kingston MONA campus of the University of the West Indies to create. It was the sculpture Savacou, which is a mythical Caribbean bird shape. In 1967 he joined the Caribbean Artist Movement, which saw itself as representing the interests of, at the time the rapidly growing Caribbean community in London. His works are, inter alia, exhibited in the National Portrait Gallery in London, the Tate Britain Gallery, the National Gallery of Jamaica and in the Leicester Museum and Art Gallery.

Awards

1977 Ronald Moody was awarded the Musgrave Gold Medal, the highest award of the Institute of Jamaica.

The crater Moody on Mercury is named after Ronald Clive Moody.

Works

• Where, 1934.
• Midonz (Goddess of transmutation ), 1937.
• Tacet ( it is silent ), 1938, National Gallery of Jamaica.
• Sleeper Mask, 1943.
• Dr. Harold Moody, 1946.
• Savacou, 1964.
• Time Hiroshima, 1967.
• Paul Robeson, 1968.