artist & social historian
I was delighted to attend the opening week of the 59th Venice Biennale. To celebrate this diverse, joyous, beautiful artistic re-awakening from the pandemic, I wanted to share some of my highlights from the national pavilions and collateral events.
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In Seven Days… was created from my experience on President Obama’s 2008 campaign trail and the final images are the visual legacy of this historic moment. However this work also represents a much wider story; a constantly evolving discussion on race, heritage, identity, and representation. For International Women’s Day I wanted to highlight some of the ways I have explored gender in this work, and particular my own role as a female artist.
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Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks (2013) Four colour silkscreen print with water-based and metallic ink on cotton paper. Held in the permanent collection of the Jewish Museum, London.
In November 2021 I had the privilege of participating in a short film honouring the late Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks as part of a special evening celebrating his life and legacy as he was posthumously given the Genesis Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Examples of the Black Madonna may be found all over the world. I wondered, given the pervasive legacy of whitewashing of the holy family, whether the black can be read as a signifier of ethnicity or was there some other historic, cultural or semiotic meaning?
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