St Ethelburga
- Naomi Blake
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The peoples of the world
- Fumiko Nakayama
Mola (2001) 406cm x 210cm |
A Mola, in the Kuna culture, is a traditional blouse worn by the Indian women, who are aboriginal in the San Blas Archipelago in Panama. It is made from two intricately appliquéd panels and these colorful graphic panels have long been admired by visitors to the archipelago and collected as an art form. "The Peoples" of the world has 40 panels |
Frolicking Horses
- by Ahmed Moustafa
Rendered as silkscreen print on handmade paper (1994) 129 x 98 cm Generously donated to St Ethelburga's by Alistair and Mariana Duncan |
This large print conveys an extraordinary sense of vitality and exhilaration. The image has been built up by superimposing many layers of Arabic calligraphy of a poem about riding a powerful horse before dawn by Imrio 'ul Qais (died 560 AD 64AH)
"Often I've been off with the morn, the birds yet asleep in their nests, my horse short-haired, outstripping the wild game, huge-bodied, charging, fleet-fleeing, head-foremost, headlong, all together the match of a rugged boulder hurled from on high by the torrent, a gay bay, sliding the saddle-felt from his back's thwart just as a smooth pebble slides off the rain cascading. Fiery he is, for all his leanness, and when his ardour boils in him, how he roars — a bubbling cauldron isn't in it!" |
The Thornflower
- by Charlotte Mayer
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"The thornflower is an attempt in sculptural form to reconcile two diametrically opposed elements. The thorns, sharp and cruel are cut in stainless steel. The flowers, modelled in wax and cast in bronze are soft and embracing. The sculpture grows from a circular base that speaks of their fundamental unity. Each one of us has at some time experienced the thorns of personal pain in our life and each one of us has also, however fleeting the experience may have been, felt the joy of flowers touch our heart. Duality is in the nature of our life on earth The Thornflower sculpture began in 2000 as a personal memorial to my grandmother who perished in the Nazi Holocaust. The early versions of the present sculpture focussed on the piercing of the flowers by thorns. They were expressions of duality. Over the next five years, as I developed the sculpture, I began to focus on uniting both elements – a reconciliation. The resulting sculpture is the outcome of a different way of looking at, and resolving, conflict.” |
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The ARTISTS
Naomi Blake
Naomi Blake FRBS . Naomi Blake was born in Czechoslovakia and as a child survived Auschwitz, although many members of her family died there. After the war, she lived in Milan, Rome and Jerusalem, before making her home in North London. She studied at Hornsey School of Art, and has been exhibiting since 1962. Her work has been exhibited in many galleries, in the Uk and overseas, and her sculptures can be seen permanently exhibited on many sites. Her works are in various private collections, including those of the Queen Mother and the Prince of Wales.
Fumiko Nakayama
Born in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, Fumiko currently lives in Kyoto. She was
a couturier before becoming the handicraft & art designer. Her
favorite subjects are embroidery, Mola, and patchwork quilt, presenting
exhibitions in Tokyo, Kyoto and other cities in Japan every year.
After having researched ethnic minority groups’ handicrafts
in the world, she wrote articles in newspapers and magazines, and
talked on TV programs. She also authored many books entitled ‘Mola’,
’On Point Mola ’ ‘Easy Mola quilt’, ‘Mola
Handicraft’ etc. She teaches embroidery, Mola, appliqué
and quilt in schools in Tokyo, Osaka, & Nagoya
Ahmed Moustafa
Ahmed Moustafa integrates his inner experiences with experiences of external reality, with a masterly fusion of classical European painting techniques and the exacting discipline of Islamic calligraphy. Ahmed Moustafa was born in 1943, in Alexandria whre he studied and taught at the School for Fine Arts.wining many prizes.He also studeis and taught at hte St Martin's Central Schoo ,of rArt in London, and has exhibited widely in England. Since 1994 he has been Visiting Professor at the Prince of Wales Institute of Architecture, Visual Islamic and Traditional Arts Department. He is a Fellow at the Centre for Islamic Studies, Oxford. He has a busy studio in Deptford.
Charlotte Mayer
Charlotte Mayer was born in Prague in 1929 and came to England with her family in 1939. She studied at Goldsmiths College and at the Royal College of Art under Frank Dobson. She is an Associate of the Royal College of Art, a Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors and was awarded a Silver Medal by the RBS in 1991. She has completed major public commissions for Alton Hospital, Hampshire; Basingstoke Hospital, Hampshire; The Barbican, City of London; Nene College, Northampton; Liverpool Inner City and Banque Paribas, Marylebone, London. Her work is held in many corporate and private collections and she exhibits regularly both in the UK and abroad.
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