2020 - Sediment

Sediment refers to the remains of dissolved matter that settles at the bottom of a pool of liquid, often forming layers as It dries. That is a direct description of the layer of paint upon the paper in this work. But it also refers to memory embedded in layers of time and archaeological remains embedded in layers of sediment. The ochres are a direct link to our beginnings as sentient beings and offer us both physical and spiritual pathways back to our origins. They are a link between the past and the present. The work Sediment references that link.

Finding our way home

The series is dedicated to Michael Gilkes, Guyanese poet, screenwriter, actor and film director who died in London on the 14th of April from the Covid 19 infection. He was 86. His poetry helped me find my way home. We met in London and became friends after I contacted him to ask permission to use his words in my work. He called me 'Mud head painter, extraordinary'. He was also a ‘Mud head’, a reference to the fact that the majority of Guyanese live on the thin coastal belt of estuarine mudflats that separate the Atlantic Ocean from the equatorial jungles of the interior. I think that both Michael and I were searching for a way back into the Rain forest.

ENDANGERED SPECIES Endangered species #1 - watercolour on paper – 80cm x 120cm 2020 — Endangered species #1 - watercolour on paper – 80cm x 120cm Ann Gollifer 2020

Finding our way home – watercolour on paper – 35 sheets in seven horizontal strips of five approx. overall size – 100cm x 150cm — Finding our way home – watercolour on paper – 35 sheets in seven horizontal strips of five. Approx overall size – 100cm x 150cm

Earthbound- Bone Char - watercolour on paper – 120cm x 220cm 2020. Earthbound- Red Earth - watercolour on paper – 120cm x 220cm 2020. Earthbound- Green Gold - watercolour on paper – 120cm x 220cm 2020 — Earthbound- Bone Char - watercolour on paper – 120cm x 220cm - 2020. / Earthbound- Red Earth - watercolour on paper – 120cm x 220cm - 2020. / Earthbound- Green Gold - watercolour on paper – 120cm x 220cm - 2020

A Prince of Serendip

Video: “Me and the Prince of Serendip.” Centre for the less good idea, The long minute video.

A prince of Serendip gate crashed the making of my video for the Kentridge Centre for the less good idea “Long Minute.” A baboon stole the show, I sought revenge and painted his skull to wear as a mask.I use my body to make a graphite frame upon paper into which I pour paint. I know what I am going to do but never know what will happen as the paper bends and the paint dries. This process helps my search for sentient beings, excavations of ancestors. The baboon’s intervention offered me that lucky coincidence that turns the mundane upside down to reveal something magical. A new and unexpected image,