A contemporary Exhibition Space showcasing new and experimental work from established and emerging artists. SVAF also actively promotes and engages with artists’ collaboration projects and formulate interactive community, school and University projects in the Gallery.
Rosalind Barker MA and Susan Evans MFA with the members of the Sevenoaks Visual Arts Forum, run The KCC Sevenoaks Kaleidoscope Art Gallery as an artist led space.The forum is based at the Gallery.
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Sevenoaks Kaleidoscope Art Gallery
SALLY ELDARS
View From Other Side a work in progress
In Residence and Solo Show
24 July – 10 August
During this residency, I will continue to develop some of my current work as well as take the opportunity of finding new ways to exhibit and work on my installations in this amazing gallery space, together with interacting with visitors and inviting them to contribute to some of the work.
My installation work focuses on an underlining theme of ‘portable sculpture’. I explore my themes through different materials and techniques: plaster forms, knitting soft sculptures, working with found materials and archiving personal slides and images as well as working with video.
I also use found, repurposed, recycled objects, in my work, responding to these materials as well as charged themes of displacement, identity, place and belonging, abstracting my feelings and thoughts into my work, investigating cultural, social, and environmental issues.
Through art, I deal with these ideas in different ways, mixed media, sculptural installations, and cross-discipline collaborative work, which allow me to investigate these themes, communicating and engaging with wider audiences, instigating conversations, and exploring differences and similarities.
Bio: I am a conceptual artist, born in Egypt to a British mother and Egyptian father. I grew up in Cairo, lived and travelled extensively around North Africa and Europe from an early age and currently living in the UK. My art practice draws on my cross-cultural heritage, social-political e, identity, memory, migration, displacement and belonging. My Egyptian, Islamic cultural heritage juxtaposed against my western liberal thought and ideas.
JULY ARTIST LED WORKSHOP
The Hanging Gardens of Kaleidoscope
Your SVAF 2024 Community Project
Now open on the Mezzanine
If you missed Chelsea and The Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival, drop into the Gallery
and explore The Hanging Gardens of Kaleidoscope
The Hanging Gardens of Kaleidoscope our 2024 SVAF Community Project was inspired by
the Jungle paintings of Henry Rousseau. The community has been enthralled by this project and
our thanks go to everyone who has contributed plants, flowers, insects, snakes, animals, birds etc.
The workshops have been enthusiastically attended by many families. We owe a big thank you to
lead artists Sarah Cliff and Sue Evans who have worked tirelessly with this public facing project
alongside Susanne Beard who led the Kaleidoscope Knit and Natter group, the Otford
Embroidery Club and the Sevenoaks U3A Crochet Group. Also thanks to Sally Eldars who ran
a separate family 3D flower and butterfly workshop.
Now it is time to find your contribution……
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