WOMEN, POGROMS, LOVE

Exhibition Wednesday 29 October- Saturday 8 November 2025

I am a storyteller, in pigment, photography & videography. Sometimes words fail me. Much of my work for the past few years is dark. Stop violence against women, murder, rape and murder of my great-aunt Sarah Chaya Krikst in the pogroms of 1917-1921 Lithuania.

I am now looking for the light. Love.

In my upcoming exhibition Women, Pogroms, Love (29 October – 8 November 2025), 7 Clovelly Rd, Randwick NSW, I present a portrait of Francine Lazarus OAM, writer of “A Hidden Jewish Child from Belgium”, survivor of the Holocaust, artworks in memory of Sarah Chaya, as well as about violence against women. And my most recent artworks trying to convey a sense of love. Love of people. Most people. Some people.

My cousin Barry said to me, very softly, after I made the painting And Then It Was The Turn of The Cossacks, “The works you are creating are so devastatingly sad”.

And then I remembered Leonard Cohen’s song “Anthem”. “There is a crack, a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in …”.

Sylvia Hrovatin has graciously agreed to open my exhibition on Sunday afternoon, the 2nd November, 3 pm. Sylvia has a remarkable ability to communicate complex ideas, and her broad knowledge of history, politics, people and the creative arts will bring a rare and compelling perspective to my tangled, sometimes simple, works of art.

Come and stand with me in this space of grief, memory and love.

If you love an artwork, take it with you and hang it on your wall for a while at no charge*. No works will be for sale. *Love comes with clauses. *See terms and conditions.