Press Releases
Yasmin Flett
The Harbour Lights Bistro Gallery,
St. Cuthberts Street, Kirkcudbright
May 2007.
The Harbour Lights is delighted to welcome back one of Kirkcudbright’s brightest young art talents, who will be exhibiting through the month of May. The young Illustrator has recently been exhibiting in Brighton in Southern England, and has also been undertaking a major commission for a new graphic novel being written in the USA.
In the past year, Flett’s art, in conjunction with the poetry of ex Kirkcudbright Academy student friend and colleague, Jennifer Scott, has been included in the Women for Children print and poetry portfolio and billboard project. This human rights initiative, which tackles the problems of women and children in sub Saharan Africa is developed by the South African art charity, Art for Humanity, and as well as travelling as an exhibition, sees billboards, including that containing the work of Flett and Scott, distributed throughout Southern Africa in 11 languages. The portfolio, including the prints and poetry of 24 other artists and poets, will be exhibited in Kirkcudbright this July as part of the forthcoming triennial Kirkcudbright International Arts Festival between 9th to 29th July 2007.
The work currently on exhibition with the Harbour Lights Bistro Gallery, although concerned with less serious matters than human rights, still displays the dynamic illustrative ability with visually articulate narratives seen within her Art for Humanity work, and which is building the young artists growing reputation.
The Harbour Lights Bistro Gallery will also be a venue in the forthcoming Festival, and will be showing the photographic work of the renowned American photographer Jeremy Landau, who as well as being a guest artist in the Festival, will be creating a series of photographic works of the D&G region for exhibition in the South-western USA.
The image here shows the Flett/Scott billboard in position in the Northern Cape province of South Africa near the town of Kimberley. The Scott poem in this instance has been translated into Setswana. Further information on the forthcoming Festival can be found at www.kbtarts.com
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