生存

作品《生存》展现了一种为生存而奋战的强大的民族精神。作品由勇士和鼓两部分构成。首先，这名健壮的勇士代表加勒比海各岛国的原始居住者——加里那歌人。在现代文明的入侵下，他们已濒临灭绝的边缘，所以作者创作这样的作品来引起人们对加里那歌人的关注。作品中勇士手举狼牙棒，以脚击鼓来召集每个加里那歌人欲起奋战，为民族的生存，为消灭社会歧视而战斗。

杰克伯·弗瑞德里克于1955年圣诞节出生在美丽的岛国多米尼克联邦，加里那歌区，圣塞亚郡。他是一名才华横溢，自学成才的加勒比艺术家。他不仅是一位多产的雕塑家，而且精通音律，长于绘画。他的绘画和雕塑作品多次在加勒比地区及世界各地参展。在26岁时他的绘画作品在加勒比艺术节展出；2000年美国纽约美国艺术博物馆收藏了他的展览绘画作品；2001年在加勒比现代艺术节上展出了风格独特的雕塑作品，等等。

作为一名雕塑家，弗瑞德里克先生擅长铸铜，是木雕大师，钢雕大师，蚀刻大师。其雕塑作品多展现其本土文化特色，风格迥异，惹人注目。他的艺术作品已成为其国家文化的一部分，是一名多才多艺的艺术大师。

Survival

Survival, composed of two parts（a fighter and a drum），reflects the national spirit that the people should fight for their freedom and survival. On one hand, the fighter standing on the drum symbols the Kalinago people who were the original inhabitants of the Caribbean islands. Today these people are on the brink of extinction because of the introduction of modern civilization. So the sculptor makes this work to attract people’s attention to them. On the other hand, the figure，lifting his club ‘Boutou’, stands for a national warrior who is standing on a drum to sound the rhythm that the Kalinago people should continue to fight for their survival as a nation that is facing social discrimination in their country.

Jacob Frederick, born on December 25^th 1955 at St. Cyr Kalinago Territory of Dominica, is a self-taught versatile artist who is not only a prolific sculptor, but a rock musician and master of paintings. Mr. Frederick used to teach wood carving at Salybia Government School of Dominica and had attended lots of exhibitions: paintings at the Caribbean Festival of Art in 1981, exhibit paintings in New York USA at the American Museum of Art in 2000, sculpture show at the Caribbean Contemporary of Arts in 2001, etc.

As a professional sculptor, Jacob Frederick is a great master of wood carving, copper brass and etchings. He has formed a unique sculpture style and his paintings and sculptures have become an important part of his country Dominica.