The Return

The Return and Unwritten, installation view, MA Drawing degree show Wimbledon College of Art, 2018.

Installation view, Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize exhibition. De Montford University Gallery Leicester 2020

The Return. Two women holding a boat. Emancipatory story. Emancipatory art. Memory story. Colonialism and Indigo. Indigo plantation. Funerary rites. Life sized drawing. Ancient cosmology. African cosmology. Charmaine Watkiss. Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2019.
The Return. Two women holding a boat. Emancipatory story. Emancipatory art. Memory story. Colonialism and Indigo. Indigo plantation. Funerary rites. Life sized drawing. Ancient cosmology. African cosmology. Charmaine Watkiss. Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2019.
The Return. Two women holding a boat. Emancipatory story. Emancipatory art. Memory story. Colonialism and Indigo. Indigo plantation. Funerary rites. Life sized drawing. Ancient cosmology. African cosmology. Charmaine Watkiss. Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2019.
The Return. Two women holding a boat. Emancipatory story. Emancipatory art. Memory story. Colonialism and Indigo. Indigo plantation. Funerary rites. Life sized drawing. Ancient cosmology. African cosmology. Charmaine Watkiss. Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2019.
The Return. Two women holding a boat. Emancipatory story. Emancipatory art. Memory story. Colonialism and Indigo. Indigo plantation. Funerary rites. Life sized drawing. Ancient cosmology. African cosmology. Charmaine Watkiss. Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2019.
The Return. Two women holding a boat. Emancipatory story. Emancipatory art. Memory story. Colonialism and Indigo. Indigo plantation. Funerary rites. Life sized drawing. Ancient cosmology. African cosmology. Charmaine Watkiss. Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2019.
This work has evolved out of my research around indigo, once one of the worlds most valued and beautiful pigments. This colour connects to the deeply mystical and also to great suffering. My exploration mediates in the spaces between these extremes as a form of ritual; a way of examining loss, recovery, preservation and transcendence.

This drawing was shortlisted for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, 2019
Pencil, graphite powder, carbon,hand made indigo watercolour on Canson paper. 130x175cm, 2018
Exhibition history: Wimbledon College of Art, Salisbury Museum Wiltshire, De Montford University Gallery Leicester, Leeds Art Gallery, Liverpool Biennial.
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