Acrpost: A Project of the Pacific Association of Artist Run Centres

Event Description

Combining small figurative works with tiny portraits and larger abstracts "The Other Side of War" is an act of remembrance for innocent lives caught up in a storm not of their making. My art practice references the metaphor of searching the dark and broken places of our past to find the child who was left behind. We are not accustomed to looking at German wartime society with compassion, yet when we consider children it is difficult not to do so. I am searching beneath historical narrative in order to retrieve tactile fragments of human story which have been overlooked and forgotten. As I face broken ancestral history I am aware that even in the midst of darkness there exists light, love, goodness and innocence, just as we see in these children and the love their mothers have for them.... more...