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Weald of Kent Grammar School
Year 9 and 12 present
GODDESSES
12 – 22 February 2025
PASSAGES
Exploring and anchoring the past through assemblage – where heritage and history meet.
Tova McKenzie-Bassant
26 February – 15 March
Join us for refreshments at the
Private view Friday 28th February 6 – 8.00
The evening will include a short film followed by a Q&A with the artist.
‘Passages’ is a solo exhibition by the artist Tova McKenzie-Bassant, presenting three bodies of assemblage, (Tokens for the Journey, Silent Witnesses and Uncle Joe’s Bowl), brought together to form this piece, and chronicles journeys made by so many, both geographically and personally, from distant homelands to the shores of England.
Tova McKenzie-Bassant is a British artist of Jamaican heritage, whose practice centres on collage, photography, assemblage, and poetry. Born in the UK toAsian and African parents, exploring the hidden effects of marginalisation on Black British people is of particular interest; as well as the complexities of fitting or not fitting into countries of birth, the struggle to manage conflicting identity values while occupying multiple identity spaces, and the internal conflicts that arise from the feeling of being without ‘a voice’.
Tova attended Putney School of Art and Chelsea School of Art before studying at Goldsmiths College. She lived and worked in London and Athens before eventually settling in Sevenoaks.
Website: www.tovamckb.com
The homepage includes a video of Tova talking about her work – https://www.tovamckb.com/videos