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REMEMBER ME lll - THE JOURNEY continues at :-
The Create Centre, Bristol
Monday 22nd October 2007 to Friday 2nd November 2007

The Global Shoe Project:

In 1996, Canadian artist Stella Meades exhibited 1001 hand-built, child-sized ceramic shoes. The shoes were unglazed, smoke-blackened, and altered to suggest some of the ways in which children affected by war have suffered.  Based on 1995 UNICEF statistics, each shoe represented 6000 children affected by war in the previous 10 years. In 2006 she sent interested people a shoe and asked them to make something to hold, cover, or contain it that would symbolize an alleviation of the loss or damage the shoe represented. www.globalshoeproject.page.tl/Home.htm

The returned works will be exhibited across Canada, and offered for sale by donation, with proceeds going to projects for children affected by war.

• October 5th - 20th, 2007,  Intersection Art Gallery, Nanaimo, British Columbia.
  
• Febuary 14th - 27th, 2008, The Community Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. Victoria, British Columbia.
  
• March 7th - April 26th 2008, Mennonite Heritage Centre Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
  www.mennonitechurch.ca/programs/gallery/
• October 30th - November 23rd 2008, Blackberry Gallery, Port Moody Art Centre, Port Moody, British Columbia.
  

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Jan has made an interactive piece for one of Stella Meade's shoes. A wooden box with a ceramic glazed lid contains Stella's shoe which is resting on cottonwool, and surrounded by loose plastic toy limbs; these can be played with and rearranged by the exhibition Curator or visitors.

© Jan O'Highway 2010

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