sonje hibbert 

ceramic artist

Through the consequence of warfare and genocide, there is the inevitable silencing of individuals and the human spirit. Yet how do the creators of art, embody the oppression and silencing of a nations cultural identity and the silence that prevails after genocidal death?

 

My aim here as an artist, has been to go beyond all the facts, and make visible this silence, thus confronting the viewer with the world of feeling, emotion and experience.
Sonje Hibbert 2003

 

 

"The works are but aspects or traces of a theme that in human concepts, in language is not representable. All of painting, but also literature and everything that it is connected to, is always but a circling around something unsayable, around a black hole or a crater, whose centre one cannot penetrate.” Anselm Kiefer 1990