Article about residency in Zona Imaginaria, to be published in August 2020, by the Society for Irish Latin American Migration Studies.
Article to be published about my residency in Zona Imaginaria
“The Salmon of Knowledge shared with children in San Fernando, Argentina” by Tina Lawlor Mottram.
Due to be published in August 2020 so will post a link when available.
A lasting peace for Medway
Royal Engineeers Museum; 19 Oct to early 2020
Curated by Tina Lawlor Mottram, this exhibition is the result of a full year of art workshops at the museum.
A fantastic exhibition of paintings and prints; canvas, watercolour, linocut prints and clay modelling.
Free catalogues are available at the museum.
Funded by the national lottery.
Patterns for Peace: an exhibition created after a residency in Zona Imaginaria in Argentina and later in Brazil (São Paolo, Sorocaba and Minas Gerais).
Opens 27 July 2019. 2-4pm.
Royal Engineers Museum
Gillingham
Kent.
Exhibition from 23 July to September 2019.
Us and Them: A volunteer’s view of South America (Brazil and Argentina); their role in divided societies where corruption fills the headlines. This abstract compares the role of non-paid volunteers in the UK to those in Latin America.
Abstract
A comparison with the role of volunteers, low paid workers and pensioners in modern Argentina and Brazil. Based on recent travels in Buenos Aires and also São Paulo and Minas Gerais provinces as an unaccompanied woman, my observation is that political corruption was seen as simply part of the status quo, the big divide between Us and Them. In the UK the “Big Society” was supposed to replace state funding, and here poverty and differences between rich and poor have trebled in the years since the 2008 financial crash. Volunteers in both Latin American countries worked without funding, for the general good of the community and/or benefits-in-kind in Argentina. Starting in Sorocaba (Brazil) my trip then progressed to Buenos Aires capital and province and this discussion is based on contemporary volunteers, with photographs and interviews from projects in both countries. The trip ended in Minas Gerais, looking at agriculture, women at work and throughout the trip, I noted graffiti, headlines and demonstrations I observed. This trip, undertaken in August-September 2018, offers commentary from a non-native visitor, working as a volunteer in Argentina and researching for articles for publication in the interior of Brazil. Newspaper headlines, the devaluation of the peso in Argentina, the failure of the abortion legislation, political graffiti, the stabbing of Bolsonaro – the voice of the people will be shown visually and discussed in this presentation. Identity for many in both countries is also duality; their European passports an ability to travel and also their link to the old world. A reflection perhaps of the scramble for European passports by UK citizens with any older heritage? An interesting discussion to be had!
o Autobiographical blurb
Tina Lawlor Mottram; graduate from Limerick School of Art in Ireland; postgraduate London College of Printing; Spanish degree (equivalent) DELE C1 Cervantes Institute in London. She lived in Barcelona and Madrid for 10 years, where she studied one year of Nahuatl (Complutense University), also working as a volunteer in BASIDA, Aranjuez. www.basida.org. Current tutor in Spanish in MACLS, https://www.macls.com/ and writer, photographer with NUJ press card. This paper will present work recently completed as a volunteer in a 3 week period in Buenos Aires province in Zona Imaginaria: www.zonaimaginaria.com.ar including interviews with local firefighters and artist communities. More information www.serpentinacreations.com.
While I was on my residency in Zona Imaginaria in Argentina, word came through that our bid for funding for “Building A lasting Peace in Medway” has been successful. The project will start in October 2018 in the Royal Engineers’ Museum in Gillingham.
We will have creative workshops for a year on alternate weekends in the museum. Admission is free. Please get in touch for more information. All welcome.
Researching for my trip to South America, I’ve come across the GoNomad website and found some really interesting articles for solo women travellers or women who like to travel in a group.
The photos are always interesting and give me an idea of what to expect; I loved these ones on the Romania trip.GoNomad ROMANIA
The Vermont (Battenkill Valley) article entitled “Vermont: Cows and Covered Bridges”. This would be really useful if I were visiting Vermont; in fact, it’s given me the idea! Some of the information seems relevant to my travels in Dorset in the UK The listings are really detailed too and you can use car, public transport and even bike using these. I loved all the suggestions for places to stop and in this heatwave, ice-cream seems like such a good idea.
Lots of useful tips for me in Buenos Aires from Editor Max Hartshone who writes about a trip to the capital city and also the famous Iguazu Falls.
There is also a very useful article about Volunteering and I hope to add my contribution to this area, after my upcoming trip to Buenos Aires.
Volunteering
Medway Peace Walk 2018
https://medwaypeace.wordpress.com/
Join in Medway’s Walk for Peace, starting in Gillingham and walking to Chatham, then Rochester on Saturday 21 July 2018.
Art project in Rochester Cathedral to finish the walk, led by Tina Lawlor Mottram.
21 July 2018. Download programme on link above.
Tina Lawlor Mottram will be working with participants at Rochester Cathedral.
My story describing experiences of living in Barcelona “Merche and the secret garden”, was published on Friday 26 January 2018.
Merche and the secret garden Una historia de Barcelona publicado en www.writing.ie.
https://www.writing.ie/tell-your-own-story/merche-and-the-secret-garden-by-tina-lawlor-mottram/