Apr. 7- May 2/ New work by Wendy Nanan

Medulla Art Gallery is pleased to invite you to an exhibition of new works by WENDY NANAN

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Since the days of the ‘Bamboo Pyramid’ being built on the exhibition floor of the Central Bank in the Art Society Annual Exhibition 1987,and the handmade paper ‘Ackee Flowers ‘of 1988,Wendy Nanan has continued to make sculptures based on found objects. From nature, from organic forms observed in situ, as they grow and blossom and die, in the changing light and shadow of the day, she observes and draws. Taking these objects to the studio and making works from them.

There is a walk around the Hollows of Serpentine Park that is lined with Royal Palms. The seed pods fall when the palms burst into flower. Soft and pliable or dried out and still clinging to the tree, they twist and contort into racquet-like shapes, changing from neon greens to burnt umber as they age.

In the creative process they become metaphors for the cycle of life. This path eventually leads back to ancient beginnings. Allowing the work to echo of objects unearthed from cave floors. Objects simple and sexual, mysterious and powerful. Reduced to the bare essentials in devotion to the female principle .

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Wendy Nanan, having entered her 60th year, can be considered to be one of Trinidad’s senior artists, primarily because she has been working and showing consistently since 1984, after her return home from completing her BFA in England.
She has shown, in group and solo exhibitions, in the Caribbean and abroad, and her work is held in national and private collections.
Nanan works in various media, including printmaking, painting and sculpture. Her viewpoint is unique to Trinidad and Tobago, and the Caribbean, as it considers feminist and East Indian issues, and how these integrate in contemporary West Indian society. She is represented in two recent histories of West Indian art, Caribbean Art by Veerle Poupeye, and Art in the Caribbean by Anne Walmsley.

She is always puzzled when people who haven’t seen her for sometime ask her –“you still working?”, explaining that making work is pranic to her existence, or as breath to life. Whether in or out of style, shown or unshown, sold or unsold. It is this constant quest to understand the world by the process of making art that denotes her seniority in this timeline.

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Opening Reception: Thursday 7th April, 2016
Time: 7:00pm – 10:00pm
Address: #37 Fitt Street, Woodbrook, Port of Spain.

RSVP: 1(868)740-7597, 1(868)622 1196 or medullaartgallery@gmail.com
Exhibition continues until Monday 2nd May 2016
Gallery hours: Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11pm-2pm.