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BACKGROUND

BEVERLEY STERLING


Beverley is a visual ceramicist/graphic artist who produces short movies and animation and recently 'Urbanesque Jewellery'. She has exhibited her work in the UK, Zimbabwe and Senegal.


“I develop a lot of my experimental ideas using ceramics, photography and text from my surroundings, living and working in Nottingham (UK) and in the past, Zimbabwe and Senegal. My short movies sometimes involve people participating and exploring their cultural identities and this may involve a ceramic object or any item that has a particular significance which evokes a memory, a situation or experience(s)”

Sunday 7 December 2008

Review Strength of Feeling, Sokari Douglas Camp, New Art Exchange (Nottingham) Dec 08/Jan 09



REVIEW

Women warriors
fighters
protection
metal shields
disturbing situations
African revenge
spiritual presence
A voice

Title Guns Teasing Suicide

photography Vanley Burke


Sokari Douglas-Camp's sculptures are resonance of a woman’s voice and affirmation of a political struggle that echoes through her country of birth. Their spiritual presence of strong West African Women protesting against the injustices of man, not excluding the West’s appropriation of oil, leaving behind a painful background of oil flares burning in the delta regions of Nigeria; consequently destroying its environment and its community. This is not only a Nigerian experience but an experience throughout Africa, which in turn affects the world, but is often ignored. The fact that Douglas-Camp’s sculptures are a testament to Saro-Wiwa’s fight, a series of documentaries on Ken Saro-Wiwa, Fela Kuti, his son Femi Kuti and expressions by artists gave an important perspective into a political disturbance that is ongoing. This exhibition shows powerful and intricately worked metal sculptures.