Over the twelve months of 2004, Brixton Art Gallery presented a
broad range of artists' work and poetry and education events,
attracting 5000 visitors to the gallery.
December 2003,
paintings and by Cuban artist Dina Santana. Born
in Havana in 1940, the artist now lives and works in South
London. Her bright, colourful paintings explore the humour and
pathos of everyday life in Cuba. Visitor numbers, 400.
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February- March 2004 Brixton Art Gallery exhibited the work of award winning
Zimbabwean artist Kudzanai
Chiurai, critically acclaimed in South Africa
and Europe. A bold and contemporary vision executed on
large scale paper, Kudazanai¼s work combines drawings,
paintings and text. The artist collaborates with
Zimbabwean and South African communities to explore 21st
century Zimbabwe. Visitor numbers, 399 |
January 2004,
group show ë2Dí
featured contemporary two dimensional works in different
medium by seven artists, Luka Doris, Richard Freer, Andrew
Jackson, Marcus Owen & Eugene Ankomah, Russell Thorburn
and Kanta Walker. Work was selected from submissions to launch
Brixton Art Galleryís 'Diverse and Dynamic' programme for
2004. Visitor numbers, 166. |
May-June 2004,
under the title Haiti
High!, the gallery presented, for the first time in
the United Kingdom, work from a collective of Haitian
painters. Many of the 60 artists are self taught, trained in
their family tradition, or trained at the Ecole Villa Art
International in Port Au Prince. Their large paintings draw on
traditional Haitian representations of everyday life through
vibrant, colourful, abstracted patterns rendered rhythmically
across the canvas. Visitor numbers 498 |
August 2004, Brixton Art Gallery celebrated its first 21
years with the ëComing
of Ageí anniversary
festival. Each week of the four week celebration
showcased a different medium:
visual arts; performance, film and video; poetry and
literature; and music. Twenty six different events and
activities included drumming, storytelling and bicycle
workshops for children. Visitors enjoyed a rare screening by
film maker Horace Ove of his classic film ëPressureí, poet
Linton Kwesi Johnson in conversation with broadcaster Henry
Bonsu, and a ska and rocksteady session with three local sound
systems. Visitor
numbers 1144 |
October- November 2004 saw
two simultaneous exhibitions. The ground floor was transformed
into a culturally diverse garden of banana trees, tree ferns,
bamboos and bergenias. ëInvitation
To A Brixton Garden Partyí celebrated Brixton's
vibrant cultural diversity through multilingual text, ceramics
and exotic plants, exploring the relationship between urban and pastoral. Visitor numbers,
405 |
The upper floor featured 'Postcard from Brixton'. These
photographs by Richard Denney explored the diverse Brixton
community through its market, buildings, clubs and, above all,
the people who live and work here. Visitor numbers, 495. |
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