Painting like Paul Dash16 December 2022 (by Gillian Costello (gcostello)) |
Nursery have been taking inspiration from Artist Paul Dash. Born in Barbados, grew up in Oxford and has lived for many years in East London, Dash recently exhibited at the Tate Britain, describing his work - "The key themes in my work are street festivals and carnival (mas). It is partly in these popular art forms that African diasporic communities throughout the Americas and elsewhere maintain continuity with African traditions. As we love to paint in Nursery, we decided to create our own piece of work, inspired by Dash. Us At Nursery.