Objects Of Inherent Beauty

Kenya Wed 04-03-2009

Objects Of Inherent Beauty
By Ed Cross

Ed Cross is a British artist, curator, art dealer and writer. Cross, who studied History of Art at Cambridge University, is curator of the Daraja collection a new U.K. based collection of Contemporary Art from East, West and Southern Africa. Cross has exhibited at the Rahimtulla Museum of Modern Art, Nairobi, Gallery Baraka, Lamu, and The Stephen Lacy Gallery and Cadogan Contemporary in London.

He is currently exhibiting his sculptures at the National Museums of Kenya at the creative gallery, private view on Saturday March 7, 2009 at 4.30pm to 7.00pm.

^{Diani floor by Ed cross}

Ed Cross’s work celebrates inherent beauty in objects that are considered valueless by many and sometimes “taken for granted” by those whose culture they come from.

The works is an indirect celebration of the Mijikenda culture which has produced dug out canoes for fishing and transport for generations, it is also a celebration of the beauty of nature uninterrupted by man, as in the often exquisite forms that the actions of the sea and sand, the Toledo beetle and later termites create on the abandoned boats that Cross works with.

At the base of Cross’s work is a reverence for renewal of self – the necessity of “recycling” the elements of ones life in a life affirming “hand made” way rather than trying to obtain ready made solutions

^{Kaya couple by Ed Cross}

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