All this week work is arriving for our upcoming exhibition, Modern Madonnas. Several artist are visiting to install work. So it’s all rather exciting to see how peices work together and in the context of the architecture at St George’s (a Tudor church building with additions of most periods between then and Victorian).
While this is going on we will be blogging about the artists and their work and some of the themes underlying their work.
In Sonja Benskin Mesher’s quiet and mysterious photos, the closeness of the mother and child doll make them seem so focused on each other that they are unaware and unthreatened by the hostile environment in which they appear to be stranded.
Peggy Cozzi’s recent work is about her son, who is autistic.
Painting someone repeatedly can become a contemplation of them: a chance to connect with them in a situation where conventional forms of communication are limited.
For Peggy, painting and drawing her son is also a way of making him visible in a society which would rather ignore his presence.
