Venue: Marine Hotel Yvette Weyers Forgotten Orchards of the Imagination Evette sees the imagination as a playful and powerful creative force that exists in everyone. Imagination has given birth to creations as varied as the Sphinx and the masks of Africa to the micro chip technology, symphonies, bubblegum and poetry. She uses ancient images, such as the Sphinx or the Mantis from Bushman folklore, to create her own personalized mythology. Sometimes she creates mythical creatures, born out of her own experiences and insights.
Alice in Wonderland The stories of Alice in Wonderland have been told for more than 150 years. Gordon Froud has collected memorabilia related Alice in Wonderland for many years. This exhibition will include items from his large collection. The combined exhibition will be opened by Marius Weyers who will be in conversation with his wife, Evette Weyers. Date: Saturday 10 June
Time:16:00.
Venue: Birkenhead House
Exhibitions - Sculpture - hotels
The Marine Hotel and Birkenhead House will each host a sculpture exhibition this year.
Dylan Lewis Transfigures In this body of work, Dylan explores the wild nature within and around us and investigating the battle of integrating this wildness into our self-definition of what makes us human. Drawing loosely on myth, ritual and archetypal imagery, Lewis ‘masks‘ his humans with animal skulls and animal attributes, blurring the boundaries between human and animal realms and evoking the notion of the shaman: the conveyor of the disembodied truths. The transformation is a connection with, and a celebration of, the vital energy, life force and spirit of all that is truly wild. 23