Eye on Art

The local saying, “What don’t kill does fatten,” clicked recently. This aptly describes enduring and succeeding despite challenging circumstances.

Writing this weekly column came about as a means to satisfy an itch to write about art in a less rigid and demanding way than academia requires.

Writing on the heels of moderating a discussion on “The State of Art” for the “Reimagining Borders: Talking Art…” event hosted from January 27 to February 3, 2023 – a collaboration between Rufaro Centre and the Roots and Culture Gallery – gave way to many negotiations to adequately represent the proceedings in the following paragraphs.

I remain distracted by the knowledge that select visual artists were called into a meeting with the high-level official in December.

The Rufaro Centre? I admit that until the email came to my inbox in late December, I had no idea what the Rufaro Centre was.

This concludes Akima McPherson’s conversation with Guyanese artist Dudley Charles. Charles, a self-taught artist, who was born in 1945, has been painting for at least 60 years and has exhibited his work in several countries around the world.