Sep 11, 2015
Really excited as my "Eve in Exile" installation has been shortlisted for the 7th Passion for Freedom Awards as part of the Passion for Freedom London Art Festival, which aims to promote human rights, highlight injustice and celebrate artistic freedom of expression. Press Release.
Mall Galleries
The Mall London SW1
Monday 21 until Saturday 26 September 2015
Gala Award Ceremony Friday 25 September from 6:30pm until 9:30pm.
To attend the awards evening and be on the guest list email rsvp@passionforfreedom.co.uk as soon as you can. To gain access on the night you will need to provide identity with a photo ID due to security requirements.
7th Passion for Freedom Awards
Really excited as my "Eve in Exile" installation has been shortlisted for the 7th Passion for Freedom Awards as part of the Passion for Freedom London Art Festival, which aims to promote human rights, highlight injustice and celebrate artistic freedom of expression. Press Release.
Mall Galleries
The Mall London SW1
Monday 21 until Saturday 26 September 2015
Gala Award Ceremony Friday 25 September from 6:30pm until 9:30pm.
To attend the awards evening and be on the guest list email rsvp@passionforfreedom.co.uk as soon as you can. To gain access on the night you will need to provide identity with a photo ID due to security requirements.
Sep 03, 2015
Form and Vision
FORM & VISION is a burst of visual energy which engages both the emotions and the intellect.
Artist/curator Terry Beard has invited a select group of artists to join her in revealing their core concerns. The result is an inventive and vigorous investigation into the human condition and the world we inhabit.
There is an astonishing breadth of subject matter on display here; identity and displacement, the way mind and body work in unison, how we connect within one another in the urban landscape, the shaping of the land over time, internal and geographic fault lines, the way that memories and dreams break into the presence of nature, invisible inner spaces and the symbolic and aesthetic value of insects are a few of the themes explored in this thought provoking and resonant exhibition.
Ceramics, painting and a variety of printmaking techniques feature in this two week show. Whatever your tastes and interests, there will be something here to catch your attention and activate your imagination.
ARTISTS
Terry Beard, Christine Calow, Anthea Eames, Stuart Green, Philip Leevers, Alison Lumb, Natalie McIntyre, Stephen Murfitt, Lindsay Terhorst North, Jenny Price, Matt Smith, Jim Vernon, Erika Wengenroth, Pam Winbolt.
15 Bethnal Green Road, London, E2 7DG Tel: 07815 319073
Opening hours: Tuesday-Saturday 1-7pm, Sunday 1-5pm Closed on Monday
Tube: Liverpool Street Station, Bethnal Green Station Overground: Shoreditch High Street Buses: 8, 388
Mar 12, 2015
WPBC Commission
Worcester Park Baptist Church is celebrating
125yrs of worshipping, serving, sharing and growing together as a church
community. For their anniversary I have been asked to create an art
work that reflects the diverse community of the church and the church
through the ages. The community is a good mix of folks, some who have
been members for generations and others who come from afar like Nigeria,
Korea, Japan and myself from South Africa. For this piece I want to
capture the meaning of church life, that a church is the people not the
building, the bonds that are formed, the activities and the support that
one gets from being part of a church family growing in faith.
I
spent a couple of weekends meeting, photographing and getting to know
better the people of the church and collecting photos and stories to do
with the history of the church and it’s members.
I have used the images to build the church as a collage and I will be adding text to the collage taken from relevant scriptures and literature connected with WPBC. It will be completed in time for the anniversary celebrations on the 6th of June.
Jan 28, 2015
Rev it Up! For Women's History Month
This has been a very interesting journey for me. When I first started working on this project, in October last year, I had an idea to do something along the lines of generations, and the women in my life who have impacted and influenced me in my family history. As I developed this idea it became about my Oma (grandmother) and my Omama (great grandmother) and their experience as internees in the Japanese war camps in what used to be The Dutch East Indies.
I spent a lot of time researching the subject and reading the stories of survivors of the camps and the war memoir written by my Omama. I had always been impressed with how my Oma had coped in such circumstances. She was only in her teens when war broke out and she had just made it into the Olympics as a swimmer but went to the camps instead. She still got to swim, but for a far greater cause, through the sewers passing notes between the male and female camps.
I was struck by her courage and that of the other women who took risks to get medicine for fellow campees and the strength many of these women exhibited in such bleak circumstances that kept them hopeful and resilient.
My aim with 'Eve in Exile' is to capture that hope, resilience and courage that these women displayed. There is something inspiring and transcendent about an unbroken spirit!
I spent a lot of time researching the subject and reading the stories of survivors of the camps and the war memoir written by my Omama. I had always been impressed with how my Oma had coped in such circumstances. She was only in her teens when war broke out and she had just made it into the Olympics as a swimmer but went to the camps instead. She still got to swim, but for a far greater cause, through the sewers passing notes between the male and female camps.
I was struck by her courage and that of the other women who took risks to get medicine for fellow campees and the strength many of these women exhibited in such bleak circumstances that kept them hopeful and resilient.
My aim with 'Eve in Exile' is to capture that hope, resilience and courage that these women displayed. There is something inspiring and transcendent about an unbroken spirit!
Dec 08, 2014
Christmas Wreath Workshop
Our Christmas Wreath Workshop on Saturday the 6th of December was a great afternoon. Everyone enjoyed themselves drinking hot chocolate with marshmallows, hot spiced cordial, eating mince pies and of course making beautiful Christmas wreaths. It was so much easier this year, instead of making the wreath rings by binding newspaper with wire, which is hard going on the hands, we used oasis rings and just stuck the foliage and decorations into the oasis. It is so much easier and it will last longer because the oasis is soaked in water. I always enjoy seeing all the different and creative things folks use to create their wreaths. I certainly get lots of ideas! Enjoy your wreaths ladies.