In the early morning listening to Radio 4 the news all seems to be bad. My most recent piece is called Some things never change. The need to make this work was triggered by an interview with a mother telling the reporter of the fate of her children aged 12,10 and 5 , killed by mortar fire in a war that was not hers. As a mother myself the interview deeply affected me. I have never been a particularly political person but I feel the need to speak out, in my own way, about the victims of these senseless conflicts. Born in 1913 my Dad was a child of the 1st World war, the so called the war to end war and I have used his image, along that of his siblings, as a mechanism to portray the plight of children still caught up in war in 2012. Thousands of kisses cover a concrete pillar for those who will never receive them. The images are of the work in progress.
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The Vanity of Small Differences tapestries by Grayson Perry, which I had made the journey from Grimsby to see, are both powerful and perceptive and the scale is impressive. His use of colour is sublime. I loved the humour within pieces which explore taste and class. There are six of them in total displayed in this modestly sized gallery along with five of Grayson Perry’s ceramic pots as a bonus. As I perused the work I found myself wondering what it would actually cost to produce a 4 metre x 2 metre tapestry !
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