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Founder
of the celebrated annual exhibitions group Womenšs Work and
co-initiator of Sightlines Original, Izita
has studied and exhibited nationally and internationally. She uses digital and
contemporary printmaking methods with found objects, painting and drawing.
Izita Kerr was born in Durban,
South Africa in 1944 and
died in Basingstoke in 2006.
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Izita uses digital photography, X-ray, Cat scans,
scanned original images to inform and develop
her etchings. Relics from the past are addressed and used visually to probe
pathways to identity. She writes:` I am intrigued by the ambiguity, the shifting of scale,
conflicting information that confronts me on the journey through my personal
history. Sometimes the substance is gossamery and
fragile and seems to fall to pieces just when I feel I am finding something
and getting somewhere. Probing identity, its history and presence in Izitašs landscape is documented visually through
traditional and digital printmaking.
At the time of her death Izita was researching at
The University of Southampton for the Practical MPhil/PhD in Fine Art / MA on The Anthropology Of
Cloth, studying at Winchester School of Art and The Textile Conservation
Centre For HAD. She practised her art in Basingstoke
and taught fine art regionally.
Education: BA (hons)1993.
MA Printmaking 2001-2 Southampton
University, Winchester and Barcelona.
Exhibitions included: Aldershot, Berlin, Barcelona, Basingstoke, Hull,
London, Newbury, Petermaritzburg SA, Tokyo, Winchester and
Touring biennially with the Caduceus Mini Print through Spain, UK
and France .
Awards: The British Art and Humanity Research Award, The London Printmaking
Council MA 2001 Prize. New Initiative Basingstoke
and Dean Award (Women's Work), FK Bert Paper Prize. The Erasmus European
Study Abroad Award. At University de Barcelona & Ecol de Belles Artes Barcelona, Spain.
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