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Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 51.2 W x 29.9 H x 1.6 D in
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This painting contains a drawing made on location at the entrance of Abney Park Cemetery in Stoke Newington. I had been involved in a community art project at the Cemetery which is a nature reserve and Cemetery, and I wanted to make a painting in response to my experiences of getting to know the area. The Cemetery is a fascinating place and has become overgrown during the 1970s and 80s it was neglected, so in the painting, I wanted to reflect the strange nature of the space which has many fascinating sculptures and overgrown pathways where trees and wild bushes have blocked an easy pathway through. Along the bottom of the composition, there is a concertina arrangement of spaces depicting dead-end alleyways and empty rooms, this imagery is in response to the park itself. The characters float across in front of the background street scene and they are a diverse group of people, I particularly wanted to show older people as part of the general community living in the area, like many areas of London, Stoke Newington has people from very diverse cultures sharing their lives, traditions and stories. Older people can become neglected, even forgotten as their lifelong friends pass away and their families live a distance away, and yet they are full of wisdom, and life experiences and their stories shed light on a past that cannot be found looking through history books.
Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:51.2 W x 29.9 H x 1.6 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
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In 2005 Frank Creber was appointed Director of Visual Arts for Water City CIC, leading on a programme of collaborative, educational and exhibition events, which to date have involved over 1,000 children and 200 Artists and musicians. In 2005 Frank Creber was appointed the official artist in residence until 2012 for Water City, an ambitious new re-development programme centred around a network of local waterways in east London. Extending from the Olympic Park in the north to East India Dock in the south, the East End is once again being subjected to the force of rapid urban renewal which Creber is recording through drawings and paintings as the project develops; a project driven by a vision to create a true legacy for east London, both physical and social. But as an artist with over twenty years experience of working within community groups in a deprived neighbourhood in Bow, Creber is equally committed to making works that explore a deeply urban affair between a new world created in the pursuit of progress and modernity and the community that it is setting out to serve. A community whose optimism is by no means universal because they have seen before that the developers’ bulldozers can just as easily destroy the inner-city infrastructure geared to serving local needs. A key to the relationship that Frank Creber has to the East End and its community lies in his role as Creative Director (up to 2010) at the celebrated Bromley by Bow Centre where he was one of the founding artists in 1986. He continues as a lead Artist for the Centre. Frank was born in 1959 and trained at University of Newcastle upon Tyne (B.A in Painting 1981) and Chelsea College of Art (M.A. in Painting 1987) and he has collected a number of prestigious awards: the Herbert Read Fellowship at Chelsea, Barclays Bank Young Painters Award and the Pickering Fellowship at Kingston. In 2008 Frank Creber was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, for his work in Community Arts with Young People.
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