AWE-INSPIRING WOMEN

SUE TATE

IRENE PAGRAM

VIVIENNE WHEELER

… your one wild and precious life …

SUE TATE  'wave of power'

Look, rejoice, celebrate, shout – among us is inspiration!

Local women offer up their creations – work of beauty, skill, patience, observation, wit – acknowledgement to the ‘one wild and precious life’ each lives in her unique and valuable way, each throwing up profound and tender perceptions, making palpable what is felt and observed, in honour of showing and sharing that moment, that realization. Foregoing to focus.

As with all things multiple and human these women’s taunts and talents lead in no single direction, nor are they guided by a specifically gendered sensitivity.

Their amazement springs from many sources: placid observation, gathering, turning of pages, gazing into frames, the eye trailing the littered dirt, the treetops, the waves, the seashore, an array of marks, telling intonations around them … This anyway is how I understand it – I read and hear of delight in Wolseley and Hokusai, I think of Anne Morrow Lindburgh’s Gift from the Sea.

IRENE PAGRAM  Making the time and space to be an artist, (2019)

I see inspiration from Miro, Leonardo, Michelangelo and think of Gerard Manley Hopkin’s Pied Beauty… I know these women live in their worlds and read them, eagerly – what a bounty to share, how pleased and proud I am to be in their orbit, however peripherally, to experience  their delight in observing and making and sharing.

Look, rejoice, celebrate, shout – among us is inspiration!

VIVIENNE WHEELER 'Content to be me'

Frustrated child

Failed to be wild

Relief now I’m older

Learning to be bolder

Children and power

Maturing by the hour

Artwork I see

Content to be me 

(V Wheeler, 2019)

Women thank you, profoundly thank you!


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THESE WORKS ARE ON SHOW AT THE 

SOUTH WEST INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY ART PRIZE 2019 - 

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