Exhibition
GRASS ROOTS
11 Aug 2015 – 15 Sep 2015
Event times
6-8pm
Cost of entry
FREE Entry
Address
- 21 Notting Hill Gate
- London
- W11 3JQ
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Buses: 28, 52, 94, 148, 328, 390
- Tube: Nottinghill Gate (Central Line)
Grass Roots is a celebration of NOTTING HILL CARNIVAL examining the ethos behind projects, movements and organisations that begin at ground level and may or may not blossom into creations that could never have been predicted. The idea that positive thoughts lead to positive actions and that you never know where those actions will take you or the community that you reside.
About
Artist Sarah Joy is a born and bred Londoner and hails from Ladbroke Grove. The Portobello community and all it entails have helped her mould into the artist she is today.
S.Js latest residency see's her exploring her thoughts and feelings about Notting Hill Carnival...
The consciousness we all have and sometimes ignore that can cost more then we like to realise. We are impacted by others and our environment, in turn we impact onto others and our surroundings.
The term ‘Grass Roots’ is defined by the online Oxford Dictionary as ‘The most basic level of an activity or organization… Ordinary people regarded as the main body of an organization’s membership’.
In the mid 1960’s active members of the Ladbroke Grove community decided to culminate their ideas and community projects into a single entity, which we know today as Notting Hill Carnival.
Carnival represents a myriad of things for a variety of people. It’s culture and music, food and drink and essentially freedom and positive energy emitted from a mass of people.
By no means did the fore founders sit around a table and decide to make the foundations of Europe’s largest and dare it be said, most influential, street party. Their reasons were humble but determined.
In a society that feels as if their hands are tied behind their backs and that the impact of their actions are so insignificant they would not be felt is not only a disheartening one but a completely false thought to have and live by.
We are affected by everything that is around us and in turn affect others and our environment. How you affect is up to you, but know that you have the capability to.
-S.JOY, Artist
The opening night for the exhibition will be on August 11th from 6pm. Feel free to bring your thoughts about Carnival and enjoy a free beer while you view the works.
Evie Kendall
|Curator at Notting Hill Arts Club|
