'Voices' exhibition at Bristol's city museum and art gallery

Release Date:  15-Sep-2008

A new exhibition, ‘Voices’ is set to open at Bristol’s City Museum & Art Gallery on Wednesday, September 17. It will showcase contemporary artwork by eight emerging and established African and African-Caribbean artists, from the Bristol area and around the UK.

The artists in the exhibition include: Lisa Amparbeng; Mark Carroll; Helga Gamboa; Bandele Lyapo; Glenn Jordan; Gloria Ojulari Sule; Maria Onyegbule and Mo Ouammi.

This is the first time their work has been seen together in Bristol.

Voices explores relationships, politics, immigration, life and love. It celebrates the power of expression through ceramics, painting, sculpture, photography and video.

Artists work include:
· Artist, Gloria Ojulari Sule makes personal journeys to Africa and uses video as a way of recording her experiences.
· Academic, curator and artist Glenn Jordan uses the medium of photography to map the diverse ethnic groups living in Wales, while challenging traditional notions of portraiture and representation.
· Bandele Iyapo works across a range of media to deliver work with a strong political message.
· Graeme Mortimer Evelyn is represented with preparatory work for his commission to carve a reredos for St Stephen's Church. His art contains reflections on the world through bold narratives.
· Mo Ouammi's work expresses his feelings between two worlds, his birthplace of Morocco, where he grew up, and Germany where he lived for 25 years.
· Emerging artists, Mark Carroll and Lisa Amparbeng, show paintings and drawings. Mark uses his travels to Africa as a source to create work which displays his emotive response to the people he has met. Lisa's Slave to fashion series has a positive message reflecting on clothing and its past relationship with the transatlantic slave trade.

There is also a community arts project being displayed alongside the Voices exhibition. The youth project has been organised by Createxchange in Easton and the group have produced two wax tablets inscribed with text from a stylus they made.

The exhibition is free and visitors are invited to come and listen to one of the free 'Art Talks!' sessions. This is an opportunity to meet some of the artists and hear more about their work and what influences them.

· Voices is funded by Bristol City Council and Bristol’s Legacy Commission.

Author:   Helen Hewitt, tel. 922 2646

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