Even your shadow will abandon you

About

During the past two years, the artist has produced a series of works related to the atrocities being committed in Gaza. Bombarded by images of the slaughter, maiming and constant displacement of thousands of people, and furious at what she sees as our government's complicity in this, and the lack of international condemnation or intervention, whilst the mainstream media flaunted its appallingly unbalanced allegiances, she has made work that fluctuates between images of death and violence, and a hope for peace.

As children and adults have had their lives, limbs, and homes decimated, the artist's urgency to produce something has resulted in a large number of swiftly executed, very low tech work; sewing, drawing and monoprinting onto anything that came to hand: tattered textiles, scavenged old household linens, scraps of paper and cardboard packaging.

Maddison feels it is important to show these pieces now, to keep up the conversation about what is still happening, despite a supposed ceasefire, in Gaza and the West Bank - and what has been happening for years.

​The title of the exhibition comes from the poem No Art  by Mosab Abu Toha, a Gazan poet, unable to return to his homeland, whose words and images on social media have been an important source of information during this time of half-truths, deceit, destruction and despair.