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Visual Arts for Peace in Rwanda
23rd October 2023
Visual Arts for Peace, was a 2-month project Sara ran in Rwanda in summer 2023 in collaboration with Dr Kazuyuki Sasaki at the Center for Research and Action towards Sustainable...
Smiles for Genocide Survivors Drawing & Painting
5th September 2023
Umucyo Nyanza (‘Nyanza Light’) in Rwanda’s Southern Province is a self-named social enterprise of 14 women who sew and sell products from kitenge fabric. 7 genocide survivors and 7 wives...
UK Peacebuilding Students Learn from Play
14th February 2023
As Peace Studies Masters students, we have been exploring metaphors that can symbolise aspects of conflict engagement and/or peacebuilding. I chose play, and facilitated a 10 minute game for my...
Expressive release for Catholic nuns in Senegal
16th June 2022
In December 2021 during a French lesson at the Institut Français in Saint-Louis, I found myself sitting beside a Catholic nun recently arrived from India. Both J. and I were...
Dakar Artist Residency
25th May 2022
In early spring 2022, during her 'sabbatical' in Senegal, Arts Lab director, Sara Downham-Lotto, was given a studio space at Dakar’s Village des Arts, where over a period of a...
Creative Voice for Senegal’s Talibé
21st May 2022
November - December 2021 saw Sara taking some of the Arts Lab magic to work with Talibé street children at Maison de la Gare* in Saint-Louis, Senegal. Unpacking the suitcase...
Caroline Saunders
12th October 2021
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Laura Sharpe
12th October 2021
[vc_row css=".vc_custom_1633948695347{margin-top: 0px !important;}"][vc_column][vc_column_text]My Illustration practice is inspired by psychology, folklore, dreams and bygone eras. I work in a variety of mediums to create images and 3D work including collage,...