Diana Forster: Such a Long Journey

Last edited by TheNorthWallArt... on 16 February 2021

Venue, Timing and Cost

Venue: 
The North Wall Arts Centre
Date(s): 
Monday, 13 September 2021 to Saturday, 25 September 2021
Timing: 
10am-4pm Mon- Fri, 12pm-4pm Sat
Cost: 
Free

In 1940, at the beginning of the Second World War, Stalin’s troops invaded eastern Poland. A million Polish people were forced from their homes at gunpoint and sent to labour camps in Siberia. Diana Forster’s mother and grandparents were among them.

Diana avoids showing traumatic, disturbing images in her installations and prints as they can turn viewers away. If we accept a role for art in presenting subsequent generations with the realities of war, we have to find new ways of engaging audiences and Diana does this through formal qualities which draw the viewers’ attention while the work is gradually understood.

Further Information

Contact Details: 

https://www.thenorthwall.com/whats-on/di...

The North Wall Arts Centre
South Parade
Summertown
Oxford
OX2 7JN

any questions:
ph. 01865 319450
email. contact@thenorthwall.com

Exhibition
Visual Arts

Adults