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I am a practising Visual Artist/Maker based in South London. My work includes drawing, painting, mixed media, moving image and installation. My practice derives from my experience as a black British woman of dual heritage, a mother and aspects of my background thus far. I assemble, work and rework the multiple strands of this personal material to create work that comments on of issues of identity and culture within our racially complex sociality today.

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Peckham Library Reading Group

Reading as a root to drawing and planning new artworks

The first reading group visit.  This could be what I am looking for as part of my project stimulus.  It takes place in one of the mysterious bulbous objects entered from the fifth floor the rounded room is light and airy.  We read ‘A Worn Path’ by Eudora Welty, in sections and discuss each section as we go along, just realised we didn’t discuss the title which in fact is very relevant... Oh well...It’s a beautiful story and the discussions were in depth as we were just five people. 
Next a poem by Langston Hughes, the poets name jumped out at me directly and I mentioned my interest in the Harlem Renaissance artists and explained that this is how I knew of the writer.  The poem ‘Mother to Son’ has hugely universal theme, but my knowledge of the period in which it was written lead me to feel the hardship that had evoked such a poem.
The session perfect, I shall continue to attend and take the opportunity to pick up a couple of bargains in Rye Lane on route to Station.

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