Art as a communicative venture
Practise:
- Realistically Painting
- Myth, History and Art History
- Contemporary Life
Under Fire: The Shooting of Cherry Groche (2005) – Sep 28th 1985
oil on linen
- Painting as an object orientated art form
The Next Turn Of the Screw (1987)
- Police Brutality and #BlackLivesMatter
- References Art History Canon – Manet: [1] Execution of Emperor Maximilian (1869-1869)/[2]Goya: The Third Invasion of May 1808 (1814)
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Queens of the Undead (2010-12)
When Shall We 3? Scenes from the life of Njinga Mbandi (2010)/(2015)
painting onto the backside (framing) of the canvas – reversing cultural stereotypes
- Power Struggle in Western Art between Black and White cultures
- References: Giovani Cavazzi, Queen Njinga meeting De Souza (Engraving c. 1677)
Landscape Reference:
Frans Post, Landscape of Brazil (1665-9)
Some Clarity of Vision (2015)
For Moses has Married an Ethiopian Women (Numbers 12:1) (2015)
- Christian and Torah Quote in reference to paintings title
Jacobs Jordaens, Moses and his Ethiopian Wife, c. 1650
Michealangelo, Moses (1513-1515)
Some Clarity of Vision Exhibition – MoMo
Allen Jones Sculpture Controversy
