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20/4/2007

Two exhibitions

Brewery Arts Centre, London

Everlyn Nicodemus and Dr Pam Johnston

Bystander on Probation

Everlyn Nicodemus from Tanzania will be showing her remarkable "Reference Scroll to Massacres, Genocides and Ethnic Cleansing" as part of her show that opens the Brewery Arts Centre. Aboriginal Australian artist Dr Pam Johnston will be showing new work.

The "Reference Scroll to Massacres, Genocides and Ethnic Cleansing" is a sixteen metre long scroll that lists hundreds of the known atrocities that have occurred throughout human history and is a powerful reflection on global inhumanity. Set in a specially designed installation of film and framed art work for the Brewery it is a truly unique offering by an artist and academic who has toured the world exhibiting and appearing in conferences.

An immensely moving and thought-provoking installation by a remarkable artist, who sets the historical and political context of this body of work with her Reference Scroll on Genocide, Massacres and Ethnic Cleansing. Clinically, exhaustively and painfully listing centuries of genocides around the world, the scroll emphasises the limits of visual representation as a tool to truthfully render the terrifying extent of extreme suffering and evil. Tanzania-born Everlyn Nicodemus' personal and analytical approach to her own experience of trauma is explored through a series of new works as visual commentaries to the scroll and its texts, which will also be shown in a digital projection.


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Deconstruction of a Human Heart

Leading Aboriginal Australian artist Dr Pam Johnston will simultaneously be showing new works specially produced for the festival in an exhibition called "Deconstruction of a Human Heart" that will be exhibited in the Sugar Store Gallery.

As well as having her work bought by collectors such as Bob Dylan she has also been involved with youth projects linking young Aboriginal artists with U2 and other international figures.

Dr Pam Johnston Dahl Helm is one of the most significant Aboriginal Australian contemporary artists. On her second visit to The Brewery, she will be showing a new body of work as part of the festival that has been specially created for the Sugar Store Gallery. As well as being an indigenous artist who has exhibited in Australia, Europe and the US, Dr Johnston also writes extensively within the fields of education and cultural theory, particularly post-colonial theory.

&"There are two sides to the importance of someone like me exhibiting at a space like the Brewery. It is important that your community, both locally, and the arts community, is exposed to ways of making art that are so very different from the ways things are done culturally in your part of the world, and its important that I exist in the world and that I also know that you exist."

The Brewery Arts Centre
122A Highgate - Kendal

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