Jane is a visual artist whose work has been shown at ARC Stockton, the Python Gallery, Middlesbrough, and in South Korea. Born in Rwanda, she came to Teesside at the age of 20.
She talks about her childhood in Africa, and her arrival in Britain, from the difference in the way the food tastes to her wonder at seeing fields of yellow flowers lining the roads on her first journey to Stockton. She speaks of becoming a mother, how her thoughts, feelings and actions changed, and how this led her to take part in a wider community of shared childcare.
She praises the importance of Stockton’s drop-in centres and sessions in her early years in the town, and how they helped support her community-based artistic practice. Jane also discusses the importance of Stockton International Riverside Festival, her involvement in Stockton Carnival, the two-way joy of community work, and how her new art base, Bizi Studios, is open to youth groups, dance sessions, sewing classes and bingo nights.
Interviewed by Lynne Lawson. Audio Mastered by Barry Han. Edited by Damian Wright.
Funded by National Lottery Heritage Fund.
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The words and opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the interviewee and do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of Periplum, or any other individual, organisation or funding body associated with the interview.
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