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SIR LLEWELLYN XAVIER, KCMG, OBE

An artist of the Caribbean.
A lifetime recognised internationally.

In 2025, two major international distinctions marked an extraordinary chapter in a lifetime devoted to art, culture, environmental advocacy and service.

2025

KNIGHT COMMANDER

Order of St Michael and St George
KCMG
Windsor Castle · England
2025

OFFICIER

Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
ARTS & LETTRES
Résidence de France · Saint Lucia

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The work is dedicated to my wife Christina Xavier


Artist Statement

Growing up in abject poverty on the tiny Caribbean island of Saint Lucia and going to school without shoes and having to walk eight miles to and from school each day, meant that I was seldom on time for roll call. The school consisted of one single room. The Headmaster’s desk was at one end of the room on a makeshift platform. I left at the age of fourteen, soon after embarking on a wild and riotous, hedonistic global quest ostensibly to find my true self, eventually landing at a silent monastery in Montreal, Canada.

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    GALLERY REPRESENTATION​
    • Unix Gallery, 507 W 27th St, New York, NY 10001, United States
    • Mucciaccia Art, Rome, Cortina D’Ampezzo, Singapore, London, New York
    Exhibitions
    • Unix Gallery, New York, USA
    • Phillips, Park Avenue, New York, USA (Blue Ocean Sanctuary)
    • Whitechapel Gallery, London, England
    • Oxford University, Oxford, England
    Works in selected Permanent Collections
    • The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
    • The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
    • The Museum of Modern Art, New York
    • The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England