I went to Bite: Artists Making Prints private view last Tuesday, and was pleasantly surprised! First to see my print was one of the first as you go in, but even more when I saw there was a sticker under the label saying I had been awarded the Art Club Charitable Trust Award! And that was not the last surprise of the night, as after a while, a red dot sticker was placed beside my work, I sold it! Incredulity is a red woodcut featuring an androgenous Jesus-like figure (also hiding a self-portrait):
This is a very small sample of my favourite prints from the show:
Serena Smith's stone lithographies, which there were several of, are peaceful and simply beautiful, specially in the way she makes the shape of the stone to be part of the image.
Margaret Ashman 'Natya Sandhya'
Magda Kaggwa 'Oh sugar! No. 3'
And Chita Parvathy's Eve: 2 'Kali giving birth to the universe' is really close to my work in subject matter. I find really interesting the way she joins, by the means of the colour red, the pregnant uterus and giving birth, with the woman's mouth. Both body openings after all. The reference to Eve and Kali are a contrast... Eve on the one hand Judeochristian's representation of the first woman as temptress, and Hindu Kali depicted as the mother goddess creator of the universe...
Eve, who was, according to the Old Testament, 'birthed' (rather awkwardly) by Adam turned into a Goddess creator, the one who birthed all?
