Thought people might be interested in this latest project from Emily Johns (one of the nominated artists from Remember Saro Wiwa)
APPEAL - JNV Iran delegation
After two years of trying, Justice Not Vengeance has finally found a route to send artist Emily Johns to Iran as part of a peace delegation. She is travelling to Iran in May with the Fellowship of Reconciliation US and the Muslim Peace Fellowship US on a friendship delegation. She is the only European delegate to be selected for this trip. On her return she will be making images for an anti-war exhibition project to do with Iran.
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posted by Jonathan at 10:19 AM
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Emily's work will be familiar to many people from Voices in the Wilderness UK postcards and posters (we will be posting some of her images onto the JNV website later this week). She has combined peace activism - during the 1990s with ARROW, and latterly with Hastings Against War - with passionately-engaged art, dealing with subjects as diverse as the sanctions on Iraq, genetic engineering (the 'Gene Genie' exhibition), and nuclear weapons ('Critical Mass').
Her work has featured in Peace News, the Housmans Peace Diary and a variety of magazines. She is also the illustrator of a number of books, including poetry books by John Heath-Stubbs and political books by Milan Rai (including 7/7: The London Bombings, Islam and the Iraq War).
With generous support from a number of funders including the Fellowship of Reconciliation (England), the Methodist Peace Fellowship and Pax Christi, we have nearly raised enough money for Emily's fare and expenses in Iran.
We are now appealing for funds to help pay for the development of an exhibition, postcards and other anti-war materials we would like to create, based on her images, bolstered by the critical information we have been gathering during the last two years.
It is not enough for artists to be 'war artists' documenting conflict and commenting on its consequences. It is necessary for them also to observe and to challenge when conflict threatens.
We would be very grateful for any donations, however large or small, towards this project.
If you are able to make a donation, please make it out to 'JNV' and send to us at:
29 Gensing Road, St Leonards on Sea, East Sussex, TN38 0HE.
If you are able to make a standing order (of whatever size) to support our work, or prefer to transfer money directly, our bank details are:
Justice Not Vengeance,
A/C 78520921
Nationwide Building Society,
40 London Road,
St Leonards-on-Sea
East Sussex
TN37 6AN
Sort code 07-00-55
For whatever support you are able to give, we are very grateful.
Yours for peace
Maya Evans and Milan Rai
Justice Not Vengeance
www.j-n-v.org
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