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Prisoners' Garden

Victoria Malcolm

Dimensions
15cm x 30cm x 0.75cm

A cropped section of a scene in a photograph taken by my grandmother in 1930s South Africa: prisoners working in a school grounds with my uncle whose leg is in an iron as a result of polio. The panel is part of the assemblage 'A Painted Album' based on photographs of a South African background during the apartheid years.
V M Victoria Malcolm

Veil

Pool: De Waterkant 2

Dame Clare

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