Context (Field collection)
Collected by Huon Wardle in 1992.
Event Date 1992
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Production / use)
Huon Wardle: 'The artist is 'Woody' Joseph, age 70. Joseph's is one of Jamaica's oldest surviving intuitive artists. He lives in Castleton, a few miles above Kingston. His works are motivated by an animist philosophy. He makes them from odd pieces of tree root or base; each piece is suited to the particular shape of the wood block. Many of his sculptures are painted red, a colour which has considerable personal significance for him (featuring in a number of dreams of flight). This piece was dyed black instead. He has exhibited widely at the National Gallery, local galleries and abroad. Supplements income with hillside peasant farming'.
Event Date 17/2/1995
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Carving called 'Star Girl', made by Woody Josephs in 1991. Dark, abstract carving of head made from cedar wood blackened with logwood dye. Incised suggestion of eyes, nose, mouth and ears. Fan effect around head, with serrated edge. Reverse of head decorated with lines of ridges and furrows. Some reddish marks near top and base rims.
Event Date 17/2/1995
Author: maa

Context (Production / use)
Abrasions in the surface show through as red. It is unclear if the sculpture was painted with a red undercoat before dyeing black.
Event Date 7/12/2001
Author: rachel hand

Description (Physical description)
'Star Girl' by Woody Joseph, 1991. Dark, abstract carving of head made from cedar wood blackened with logwood dye. Incised suggestion of eyes, nose, mouth and ears. Fan effect around head, with serrated edge. Reverse of head decorated with lines of ridges and furrows. Multiple white and reddish marks on front and reverse of carving.
Event Date 30/11/2020
Author: Jazmin Hundal

Exhibition (Spotlight Gallery)
EXH.2022.11 | Spotlight on Stores Move
Event Date 25/7/2022
Author: Katrina Dring