A major exhibition of the work of the important South African born artist

6 - 27 February 2002

Above: Reeds with Red Tree

'Enticing, dream like and frequently puzzling, these intense, scratchy images demand your attention’ 
Henrietta Wilkinson

Without doubt one of the major forces in the South African art and education establishments during the 1950’s and 60’s Cecily Sash came to England like so many South Africans of that era who painfully removed themselves ‘from the climate of repression and conflict...so keenly felt by those who found apartheid abhorrent and stifling’.

The exhibition was opened by the South African High Commissioner to the Court of St James, Her Excellency Ms Lindiwe Mabuza , seen above with Cecily at Tuesdays opening. Ms Mabuza spoke powerfully about the link between art and the liberation struggle and thanked Cecily for her creativity spirit and the message of belief in an ultimate freedom that she conveyed in her work.

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