Guildford, Watts Gallery, The Big Issues Exhibition, 2-20 February 2015, and travelling to London, Gallery Different, 24 February – 7 March 2015
“This piece is a tribute to the work of Alison Lambert who captured the essence of human emotion through studies of culturally displaced people. My Gideon has been stripped of his way of life, he has lost his home, his family and is constrained and forced to live an alien existence. His rage is as terrible as his pain. Gideon lives in a perpetual eternal conflict between his sense of dignity as a human being and his required compliance to his masters. You can see his vulnerability and still feel his strength. His presence is defined by a veiled defiance. When the price of imprisonment is everything that the captive loved, then the prisoner wants nothing from the society that crushed his life. All that remains is terrible poisonous rage.”
