Reasons To Be Cheerful Part 12
Morne Fortune Museum & Art Gallery Castries (In Kwéyòl Kastwi)
Natasha Fontenelle
Artist – Poet – Sculptor Maker of wearable installation and fixed ceramic sculptures.
As an experienced and hardened art gallery attendee. I am grateful, that I’m still able to be critically moved when encountering beauty and demonstrative truth.
It was a privilege to go to the Morne Fortune Museum & Art Gallery Castries, not once but twice to experience the amazing work produced by Natasha.
I was further privileged to hear Natasha talk, describing the journey that each piece took from: pen to paper, clay to sculpture, cloth to tapestry, paint to canvas, paint to her skin, and nature to her body.
It truly is an experience to the visual and emotional senses to witness the exploration of this journey come to life.
These works of arts are derived and unearthed from Natasha‘s personal relationship with our ancestral self. Almost as if the artist has uncovered a life form and language that was previously only known to our ancestors and artistic champions of time.
The often-missed transitory beauty of artwork from its fragile inception to ethereal completion takes centre stage. The incremental development of the work is quite literally woven and worked into the theme of the exhibition.
Top Tip: No spoilers the body of work is definitely worth seeing.
Special thanks to the art gallery.
The space Natasha‘s work is exhibited, is right and fitting. The historical movement through the walls of the gallery compliments the emotional charge of the experience.
To those who are able to see this exhibition in St. Lucia, you should?
Hopefully this exhibition will see the light of day in other countries around the world, such is its power and poignant message of antecedence, the work truly deserves it.
In Natasha’s own words
“I make ceramic sculptures and wearable art.
As part of my practice I also write poetry, draw and create performance art.
Clay will always be my first love.
Feeling a natural mutual trust we work intuitively in collaboration, respect the process and embrace freedom for change.
Taking inspiration from music, imagination and personal experience to produce reflective emotion lead true expression.
Finished pieces show a glimpse of a private conversational dance between my whole self and the material.
In a world of restriction through my art I live free.”
Acknowledgments:
- Natasha Fontenelle
- Kwéyòl Dictionary Ministry of Education
- Tony Nayager for corrective guidance. (He knows what I mean!)
- Marilyn St Rose for keeping me right.
End of Reasons to be Cheerful Part Twelve.
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