Belonging

All set up for the next exhibition at the Linkgallery. Madi, Lana and myself will meet this Friday and start measuring and hammering. 

Lana Al-Shami has her family roots in Iraq and Madi Acharya-Baskerville is of Asian origin and spent much of her childhood there. Coming from very different cultural origins, both artists explore themes of alienation and belongingin their work. 

Here in the Link Gallery Lana presents a series of her sculptures and prints exploring the notion of 'Identity' and Madi leads us through a photo documentation of the project ‘Sanctuary: home, away and common ground' which took place in Kenya last summer.

The show will run until end of March.

Madi Acharya-Baskerville

Silverbeech, detail of wallpaper

Madi Acarya-Baskervill will use the LinkGallery at the John Radcliffe Hospital to show a documentation of her recent residency at Nairobi. The exhibtion will start in the beginning of January.

Playtime at JRH

An afternoon nicely spent. Patients, staff and visitors were engaged in playing Cally Trench's board games "Vegetable Thieves" and "Shopping Spree" at the John Radcliffe Hospital. 

Come and play!

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While the exhibition of Cally Trench's Board Games can be viewed at the LinkGallery, JRH invites patients, staff and volunteers for a play session.

Are you ready to steal vegetables, go on a shopping spree, or gamble with people’s lives? Cally Trench is showing images of her board games - Shopping Spree, Vegetable Thieves, Board Game, and Danger Money - in the Link Gallery.

What makes a board game designed by an artist so special? It is not only the design, although each of the games is hand-crafted. Shopping Spree comes with a whole store of lovingly created items – clocks, washing machines, TV sets and piles of designer clothes. Vegetable Thieves includes carefully crafted beds of cabbages and carrots. Danger Money and Shopping Spree have bank notes in their own currencies.

Danger Money

Cally Trench makes board games. They have been described as 'subversive' and 'ethically confusing'. 

Sounds good, doesn't it. Well, Cally Trench will be showing her games at the Link Gallery from October to December 2011.  For the launch we are going to organize a gaming session.