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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)”

Friday, 2 August 2013

SLAVE BRACELETS INSTALLATION - NEW ART EXCHANGE, NOTTINGHAM















...For a third, by Beverley Sterling, the viewer is invited to sit at a table upon which a film is projected which claims that everyday wrist bangles originated as slave shackles.

Shackles also persist today, the film suggests, in the form of police handcuffs.  Now discuss.


Read more: http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/Time-summer-art/story-19538823-detail/story.html#ixzz2apGYPFN9      By Mark Patterson, Nottingham Post
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