Get Back... to the Future
'Get Back.... to the Future'
- an exhibition showcasing artworks by
RealArtWorks Inc. artists' collective
plus refugees awaiting appropriate status -
will be on view at the Serpentine Community Gallery
between the 6th and the 20th of May 2016.
A combined opening celebration,
together with Leon Mahony's solo show
'Numinous',
will take place from 6pm
on Friday 6th May 2016.
All welcome.
RealArtWorks Inc. prides itself in being an
inclusive arts organisation supporting
marginalised groups of people to be creative.
Works in 'Get Back...To the Future' will bring together some powerful visual and written stories
from many walks of life that engage in
RealArtWorks, and we are really excited to be
exhibiting artworks from refugee friends
who have been waiting on
Nauru and Manus Island
for their status to be processed.
'Informal misnomer'
digital print by Paul Schulz
Works in this exhibition give light to the vehicles art drives in
when people are travelling along a road that effects their mental health well-being.
This exhibition is a show of support for us all as we travel back to the future.
'ISIS'
by Abbas Alaboudi
'Forbidden Arts'
by Abbas Alaboudi
'The Boat'
by Abbas Alaboudi
'Of and Sleep'
by Farhad Bandesh
Abbas Alaboudi and Farhad Bandesh are both refugees who have been waiting
for over 3 years to have their status claims dealt with.
Abbas is a painter, sculpture and tattooist and Farhad is a painter and poet.
Prints of their original works will be offered for sale with all proceeds going directly to the artists.
'Am I Still Handsome'
acrylic on canvas by Janet Wilson
'Red Light Over Yonder'
'Centre Of The Universe'
'Amber On The Rocks'
metal sculptures by Jake Stevens
'Disambiguation Of Self'
mixed media
by Otto Egan Schulz
'Asian Sun'
mixed media
by Michael White
'The On Going Project'
mixed media
by Paul Schulz
'Re-Pose'
mixed media
by Sunita Bala
'Flowers And Grapes'
texta, pencil, pen
by Mat Daymond
'If Chemo Was A Colour It Would Be Grey'
'I Live My Life In Windows Of Wellness'
Mixed media works on paper by Kerrie Divett
'Angels Of Love'
'Mysteries'
'The Alien Of Love'
Above and below: mixed media artworks by Vanessa Elizabeth Toms
'The Beginning Of Time'
'The Original Diamond'
'Balance'
'Soulful Love'
“my hope and dreams are melting and away from me every single second inside the fence..who knows my pain…who can imagen….who can draw…my suffering..
this extreme grief is killing me daily….
waiting and waiting there is nothing
i have nothing that nothings is going to nothing..i am always empty..
that emptiness makes me lonely…
this loneliness makes me cry…this crying makes me…
deep ache in my heart….
i just need ur voice for my freedom feel the pain
imagen my feelings
draw my future
send ur light to my way”
2015 words and drawing
by a refugee detained on Nauru for what,
at the time, had already been 3 years
- from the website Naururefugees
Drawing by a child inside Nauru
from a submission made to the Australian Human Rights Commission's (AHRC)
National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention 2014.
