Installation shot, The Abstract Truth of Things, two person show with Andrew Pierre hart at Tiwani Contemporary Gallery, 2020

Installation shot, Out of Darkness group show July 2019
The seeker. Life sized drawing. Yoruba Divination Bowl. Ancient African knowledge. African cosmology. Yoruba cosmology. West Afrian Cosmology. Charmaine Watkiss. Memory stories.

The Seeker. The Seeker. Pencil, watercolour, coloured pencil, gum, ink and wax on paper. 65x175cm, 2019

Knowledge Keeper. Life sized drawing. Yoruba Divination Bowl. Ancient African knowledge. African cosmology. Yoruba cosmology. West Afrian Cosmology. Charmaine Watkiss. Memory stories. Cartwright Hall Bradford

Knowledge Keeper. Pencil, watercolour, coloured pencil and gum on paper. 65x175cm, 2019

This work connects to ideas around the African Cosmos and Divination. I was interested in exploring the legacy of the creation of the African Diaspora through the act of colonialism combining motifs around voyage and space in order to have these two figures engaged in a dialogue around cultural lineage and retrieval of ancient knowledge. The Seeker actively engaging with the Knowledge Keeper in order to retrieve that which extends beyond the boundaries of time....
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