Avital Sheffer, Neuma VIII, 2022, hand-built, glazed and stencilled earthenware, 50 x 34 x 17 cm
8 - 29 July 2023 Private View with Tea & Cake: Saturday, 8 July from 12 - 4pm
Please join us this Saturday at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery, 2a Conway Street, W1T 6BA, for the opening of Avital Sheffer: Filia.
Born in Israel, based in Australia, and living between many cultures, Sheffer creates hand-coiled, earthenware vessels, decorated with precisely worked calligraphic motifs that draw on the rich cultural traditions of the Mediterranean world.
Taking its title from the Spanish word for sympathy or affiliation, (and with etymological roots in the Greek word for friendship), Filia brings together works that draw subtly on the cultural legacies of Spanish art from the Al Andalus and Mudéjar eras with their combinations of Islamic, Christian and Jewish traditions.
