A Painter's Blog, January 2013: CARA ART Auction & KATHLEEN BYRON Tribute

COUNCIL FOR ASSISTING REFUGEE ACADEMICS

CARA ART AUCTION 5 December 2013

I donated this painting, from a choice of 3, to the auction.
It was small enough to travel to London in my suitcase!

A Fleur de Peau Huile sur Toile 61x45.5 cm 2012

(click here) ILLUSTRATED ONLINE CATALOGUE

(click here) ABOUT CARA

“Artists are the proverbial canaries in the coalmine. When we stop singing, it’s a sure sign of repressive times ahead.” ThERESA BAyER
Supporting Artists Afsoon, Mohammed Al-Shammarey,
Jim Anderson, Steven Appleby, Sina Ata, Shelagh Atkinson, Nick Baker, Hazar Bakbachi-Henriot, Antonia Black, Quentin Blake, Bluelou, Andrea Byrne, Billy Childish, Jeremy Deller, Stuart Denyer, Christian Furr, Kay Goodridge, Ulyana Gumeniuk, Maggi Hambling, Marcelle Hanselaar, Tony Husband, Ben Jennings,
Jane Joseph, Issam Kourbaj, Amanda Lebus, Anastasia Lewis, Hsiao-Mei Lin, Harriet Macaree, Elizabeth Hyde Macmurray, Hanaa Malallah, Grete Marks, Sonia Martin, Jane McAdam-Freud, Rodrigo de Matos, Judy Ann Macmillan, Jenny Mellings,
Tvg Menon, C. Morey de Morand, Aliya Musina, Vicki Olverson, Yasemin Omer, Robert Orchardson, Raquel Orjuz, Emily Patrick, Jila Peacock, Monica Petzal, Polyp, Harry Pye, Chris Riddell,
Kate Robinson, Samer Saem Eldahr, Tim Sanders, Peter Schrank, Stig, Charlotta Sparre, Ralph Steadman, Madeleine Strindberg, Soraya Syed, Bryan Talbot, Ineke Vanderwal, Edmund de Waal, Rhonda Whitehead, Haegue Yang and Lutfi Zayed.

CARA was established in 1933 by Sir William Beveridge and other key figures
of the day to rescue academics being persecuted under the rise of Nazism
and Fascism across Europe and enable them to continue their work in safety. Those helped in the 1930s and 40s were an extraordinary group from across the disciplines, including Nikolaus Pevsner, Ernst Krebs, Karl Popper, Max Born, Max Perutz, Ernst Gombrich, Karl Mannheim and Sigmund Freud. Eighteen went on to become Nobel Laureates and over 100 were elected as Fellows of the Royal Society and British Academy, leaving an extraordinary legacy. CARA’s work has continued over the decades, responding as and when world events place academics in danger: Hungarian Uprising, apartheid South Africa, Latin American Junta, Former Yugoslavia and, more recently, Sudan, Iraq, Zimbabwe and Syria, amongst others. Since 2006, in parallel with its core rescue mission, CARA has been working to sustain dedicated academics in crisis-affected
countries. Working in partnership with 95 universities that make up the CARA Scholars at Risk UK Universities Network, it aims to promote and defend academic freedom and provide practical support to persecuted academics.
Council for Assisting Refugee Academics is a UK Charity No. 207471

(click here) AUCTION LINK

Auction was on 5th Dec but there may be future ones

A Tribute to Kathleen Byron

click above

21st November 2013

I actually came to London to participate in this tribute to my mother

actress Kathleen Byron, at the (click here) CINEMA MUSEUM

Powell & Pressburger scholars and Kathleen’s family talk about the actress best known as the disturbed Sister Ruth in Black Narcissus, and from A Matter of Life and Death. A CINE SISTERS event.
Thurs 21 Nov, 19.30

ANGEL