SABRA-SABR by Kathryn Grushka

Kathryn's imagined, metaphoric and mashed world of the Prickly Pear and beyond.

Kathryn is an artist and retired academic. She uses her artmaking to unpack the complexities of life events, entangled in her social and cultural life with wider connections to our globalised world. This exhibition seeks to explore our collective humanity through symbols of resilience and sometime fragile identities.

This exhibition represents the act of artmaking to seek solace and peace. Kathryn has explored and celebrated the lightness and openness that comes from finding freedom through one’s imagination. Kathryn has set free her imagery from the boundaries and meanings it might traditionally contain. In the past 2 years, Kathryn has sought inventive connections and ambiguities as making images, works as a practice of learning to live well in the complex present.

The exhibition Sabra-Sabr, speaks to the peoples who together inhabit the lands and share the symbolic meanings surrounding the words Sabra/Sabr emergent from the historical pre 19th century area called Palestine. Called Sabr in Arabic and Sabra in Hebrew, the Prickly Pear plant has become a core, symbol of Israeli and Arab national identities.

Exhibition Runs from 20th June 2025 to 6th July 2025
Gallery Open Friday, Saturday, Sunday 9:00am to 2:00PM
Opening Night Friday 20th June 2025

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