EXHIBITIONS

 

 

 ART EXHIBITION  BY RUTH BIRCHAM TAYO SHOYEMI AND AYOOLA ODUPITAN 2009

 We would just like to thank everyone who attended the art exhibition to show thier support!

 


ART EXHIBITION BY RUTH BIRCHAM TAYO SHOYEMI AND AYOOLA ODUPITAN 2009

This was an educational event with the aim to bridge the gap between cultures and countries by bringing ethnic minorities together. This project consisted of 3 artists who have all experienced a very different primary, social and economical upbringing, they collaborated on a combination of paintings based on the environment today, throughout history and most importantly how this development has affected individual minds.

We feel that the key to solving most situations is educational many individuals are suffering and feel that they are alone, and the only way to get themselves heard is by committing a crime or taking part in anti social behaviour, this society consist of many key aspects that can hinder an individual’s personal development in life such as racism, discrimination, hate crimes and many other ethic related issues. The young generation today coming from an African or Caribbean background are very aware of this and therefore feel that they have lost the race in life before they have even begun. Which can resort in the actions that we have been seeing and have increased drastically from 2007 in the recent epidemic of gun and knife crime?

We want to change their way of thinking, by giving them the education which they failed to receive. The answer to solving this problem is not ignoring it; it’s confronting the situation head on, and using the past as a stepping stone to move forward. We want individuals to be aware of each other’s experience, and how each of them feels history has affected them living in today society.

This project aims to educate and evaluate, educate by providing information from other individuals experience’s and interpretations, and evaluate by showing it is possible to move forward positively and override the racial barriers. And this will all be done through art.

This event is not just applying to our ethnic minority but to the whole environment, with everyone on the same page and  able to have a greater understanding of history, we can now move forward and work on the, most important problem at hand bridging the gap, and bringing all cultures and countries together.

 

EXPLOITATION OF THE INTERNAL MIND EXHIBITION IMAGES 

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