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| Celebrating Sanctuary 2008 ~ Exhibitors |
| CLICK HERE TO READ VISITORS COMMENTS ABOUT THIS EXHIBITION |
| Tom Stoddart |
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Tom Stoddart is an international documentary photographer, as well as his work being displayed at the Pierian Centre during this exhibition there was also an exhibition of his work at Temple Meads Station as part of Refugee Week.
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Ricky Romain |
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Behnaz Shuela |
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Behnaz came here as a refugee. Her artwork is beautiful and compelling, full of feeling for things lost and left behind. In the past, as with these images she used coffee on paper when she couldn't get paint.
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Timothy Syrota |
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Timothy Syrota is a writer, photographer and film producer whose work has focused primarily on Burma since first traveling to the country in 1997. Timothy’s first book, ‘Welcome to Burma and Enjoy the Totalitarian Experience’ was published in 2001 (Orchid Press). His photographic work has been the subject of 12 solo exhibitions including exhibitions opened by former Australian Governor General, Sir Ninian Stephen, Nobel Peace Laureate, Jose Ramos Horta, and former Australian Ambassador to Burma Professor Garry Woodard. In 2006 Timothy was invited to exhibit his work at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club, Thailand.
Timothy has also filmed and directed three documentaries concerning Burma.
Timothy was the vice president of the International Society for Human Rights ( Australia) 2001-2004 and was the founder of the Thailand-Burma Border Migrant Children’s Art Project. |
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Ugyen is trained in the traditional art of tibetan thangka painting – buddhist scroll paintings. He still works in this medium but his other passion is his contemporary art. Over the last 2 years anticipating the spotlight on tibet and china in 2008 he created an exhibition of digitally enhanced images entitled ‘What if…?’ This has been shown in India, South Africa and UK. The pieces shown here are from that exhibition and explore issues affecting tibetans in today’s world. |
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| For more information on ugyen’s art please visit www.tibetalivingtradition.co.uk |
| or for thangkas please visit www.thangka.co.uk |
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| Jamyang Ketup |
| Buddhist monk Jamyang Ketup worked on a traditional Tibetan sand mandala at lunch-time every day. Culminating in a Puja Ceremony at 2pm on Sun 22nd when the mandala was symbolically offered to the nearby River Frome. |
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Jamyang, a tibetan buddhist monk from Tharlam Sasang Monastery in Nepal, belongs to the Sakya tradition which is reknowned for its skill in the sacred buddhist arts of sand mandalas and butter sculptures. Jamyang has been invited to create a sand mandala at the Pierian Centre during refugee week. The creation of this mandala – symbolising an enlightened world - will be a blessing to all who visit and this ephemeral art will be dispersed and the sand returned to the river at the end of the week’s events, highlighting the impermanence or state of constant change of all things in our world. |
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Bristol Refugee Rights Welcome Centre |
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The 'Welcome Centre' group exhibited 20 drawings and paintings, this is what they say about their work :
The pictures are by men and women who attend a drop-in centre for refugees and asylum seekers in Easton, Bristol run by Bristol Refugee Rights.
Most of these artists have not done any art as adults at all. Some have done a little at school.
One of our users, Tashi, was an artist in Tibet and his expertise is very evident.
Certain themes crop up in the pictures very often. A group of our users are young Kurdish men from northern Iraq. They often do pictures of their homeland; the mountains with a river and a farm with animals and fruit trees. One of them told us that this picture was often a subject for boys at school, while girls did a different subject, perhaps a wedding.
Some pictures are more clearly political or express emotions - rage and homesickness .
Other pictures are perhaps more decorative - patterns, trees and flowers.
The art group meets weekly and is run by volunteers who are not art teachers. If people are stuck for an idea I may say "why not do something about you country - your house or your
farm?" Other times people know straight away what it is they want to do. We do not
analyse the pictures, we hope doing them just gives pleasure, to the artists and to us.
Naomi Roberts and Judith Wainwright
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| Annie Davenport |
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Annie has been involved in the Sanctuary exhibitions since the beginning.
This year she created a movie for the exhibition in response to a situation which is often ignored or sidelined by our national press. The Dalai Lama visited this country this month and unlike any other head of state, hardly merited news reports of any sort.
PEACE MOVIE ~ What can individuals do about war ?
They can either fight in them or they can oppose them.
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One of the biggest peace movements at that time concerned the illegal invasion of Tibet by China and the recent violations of human rights which are the Chinese Governments attempts to “quieten” the situation
( pretend it doesn’t exist ) in the year they are hosting the Olympic Games. |
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| Ina Hume |
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Mo Ouammi |
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Monica Connell |
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Mohamedin Bakhat |
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Ali Fernandez
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