Exhibitions

Proceeds go to Care4Calais, Choose Love, Action Foundation (North East) and Walking With (North Tyneside)

EXHIBITION NOW ONLINE

This series of collages explores the intersections between land and body.  What does it mean to be from, or part of a place?  Does nature recognise political boundaries?  Does the land take sides?  I am sure this exhibition will raise other questions in peoples’ minds.  Please share them.

Since 2001, my work with communities seeking safety in London and the North East and the friendships that have grown from it have been a constant inspiration to me.   I adopted map collage as a quick, allegorical or “story-making” art-form to explore this experience in the context of the Conservative Government’s policy of making the UK a “Hostile Environment” for people seeking safety, and the injustices, detentions without trial and deaths which have resulted from it.

Collage works by juxtaposing things we don’t usually associate with each other.  We search for meaning by finding connections, as we do when we meet someone who appears to have little in common with us.  We find it by blending their new information with our own lived experiences, and often discover that, just as shapes and symbols are recognisable across cultures and languages, we have much more that connects us than that which separates us.

This exhibition comprises two series of collages, The Earth Belongs to Everyone and illustration plates for The Giant With No Heart (traditional). Both series are still in development and I will be posting new pictures here and on instagram @annwinterstory