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Profile Information
- My Role
- Literary Artist, Arts Supporter, Arts Lover
- My Discipline(s)
- Visual Arts, Crafts, Literary Arts, Design
- About Me And My Work
- Freelance writer of fiction and non-fiction (art and travel specifically)
- Artistic Experiences I Have Had On My Travels
- I have written about Zambia for a few blogs including the Lonely Planet.
- Places I Would Like To Visit
- A rewarding experience socialising and helping Zambian artists in Lusaka at the Henry Tayali gallery. I would love to visit Japan to learn more about their art.
- Art Forms And Cultures I Would Like To Engage With
- Avant garde writing, creative non-fiction.
- My Creative Influences & Favorite Artists
- Cindy Sherman, Henry Tayali, Chris Ofili, Guy Oursler, David Hockney
- My Artistic Affiliations
- Henry Tayali Gallery, Academy Without Walls, Visual Arts Council - Zambia
- My Web link
- http://throughlook.wordpress.com
A Writing Sample
Antebellum
So we will have a child and finally give it this earth in its veins.
The craft and the small traumas that come of being young.
To think the world was more if we could only see.
The woods menacing and mountains full of monsters that die too soon.
Heady squeals that evaporate and we become...
That child will tramp and smell magnolias.
It will understand what grits are
And will open its mount wide for ’I’.
Pledge allegiance,
Drink milk.
Be south born of north,
Pretend exotic.
Carry the whispers of the dead.
Will say ‘My Asheville.’
The child will not question where it is nor why the alphabet.
It will be a foreigner to me and you.
As is right.
What can it teach us of our adopted place?
What will it learn about home that I did not?
A golden souvenir in the sun of the antebellum that never was.
So we will have a child and finally give it this earth in its veins.
The craft and the small traumas that come of being young.
To think the world was more if we could only see.
The woods menacing and mountains full of monsters that die too soon.
Heady squeals that evaporate and we become...
That child will tramp and smell magnolias.
It will understand what grits are
And will open its mount wide for ’I’.
Pledge allegiance,
Drink milk.
Be south born of north,
Pretend exotic.
Carry the whispers of the dead.
Will say ‘My Asheville.’
The child will not question where it is nor why the alphabet.
It will be a foreigner to me and you.
As is right.
What can it teach us of our adopted place?
What will it learn about home that I did not?
A golden souvenir in the sun of the antebellum that never was.
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Goodbye Zambia
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 6:51am 0 Comments 0 Favorites
Saturday was my farewell party and the Visual Arts Council base, the Henry Tayali Gallery. I was called upon to speak, always a mistake as I am a terrible public speaker, despite my background as an adult educator. Plus I am British so am not very good at showing emotions in public. Here is what I should have said to all my dear friends:
'Thank you for…
Continue My Friend Stary: breaking Zambian taboos
Posted on August 30, 2010 at 6:00am 0 Comments 0 Favorites
My friend Stary is going to be famous. All you have to do is look at his work and the question becomes, ‘Why have I never heard of this artist before?’ Stary Mwaba: remember the name, you will not forget his work.…
Continue The Art Pages - Serving a Community in Zambia
Posted on June 16, 2010 at 5:00am 3 Comments 0 Favorites
The idea was a collective one and the fact we all came to the same conclusion independently just goes to show how in-sync we all are. My colleague Zenzele Chulu was not long back from his residency in Cameroon where he had been inspired by the work of Gody Leye and the Art Bakery who have their own newspaper, very simply produced. I had just come back from North Carolina where I became deeply enamoured of…
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Thanks for checking out my work - The city is so cold for the winter so I make tons of monoprints - nice and warm inside, with a cup of coffee :)
what ashock for me.my kenya country manager for artist program is called liz wanjiru or liz w.what a coincidence of names,keep writing.zambia is dry country without live artistic networks.keep motivating them.
iam currently in joburg south africa setting up-international artist residency centre.
keep writing