Four Women in Aquelarre will feature the work of Anna Alcock, alongside three of her long-time collaborators
A late Walthamstow artist will be featured in an upcoming exhibition at Winns Gallery from 30th August until 12th September.
The 4 Women in Aquelarre exhibition will be the fifth collaboration between Anna Alcock, Kirsten Schmidt, Yanire Sylva Delgado and Linda Green.
Anna Alcock, originally from Johannesburg, South Africa, had lived in Walthamstow for more than two decades before her death in April. She was diagnosed with secondary breast cancer in 2023.
The South African artist was known for her charged prints that explored complex issues from environmental catastrophe, political and social upheaval, and personal trauma.
Like the witches in Francisco Goya’s El Aquelarre, the artists will share their responses to their personal grief, with reference to spiritual traditions, mythologies and contemporary crises.
Transience, longing, hope, and a wish to connect to an invisible world all feature in Kirsten Schmidt’s work. She says: “I work intuitively and once again, birds feature a lot, as for me they represent, freedom and a lightness of being for which I constantly strive and that seems forever out of reach.”
Yani’s fascination with “Ermitano” the hermit has led her to reflect on what it might be like to live without the need to achieve and to just be in a space beyond doing. Her recent sculptures which have developed into a more human like and masculine form seem to express a quiet longing, maybe for that space of stillness and silence in which new insights and visions can appear.
Immersion in the forest is one theme Linda explores in her mixed media works in which she attempts to convey the rhythms, textures, darkness and chaos of the forest as well as its open spaces. The seasonal changes in colour, density and light are reminders of the impermanence of all things. She says that losing herself in the forest can open up an inner space for quiet reflection and the emergence of fresh ideas and images.
4 Women In Aquellare will be on show in Winns Gallery in Walthamstow from 30th August until 12th September
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