Sue on view in "Street Magazine"  A Japanese journal of cutting edge street fashion

Public Events   IN 2008 

In November 2008, Wild Old Women will invade SE1.

 There is a myth that women slowly begin to disappear as they age. After fifty, they begin to fade away, in their sixties, they become fairly ineffectual, and by the time they reach their seventies, they have achieved total invisibility. What an absurd, vicious and laughable rumour; what UTTER NONSENSE!

We are loud, we are raucous and we are thrillingly, vividly visible. This winter, we will fill Novas Gallery with our art - SE1 will never be the same.

  Come view our weird assemblages, powerful paintings, profound  collage and spectacular sculptures. Marvel at our stitched creatures; glittering goddesses built of detritus; a tiny yurt; and a giant Medusa. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll revel in our amazing visions, colourful whimsies and deep perceptions.

 We have big ideas, we have been around for awhile, and we are outsider artists, so we do things exactly as we please. Ignore us at  your peril!

www.wildoldwomen.info

Past Public Events

Sue Kreitzman (U.K)

My work is completely untutored, intensely personal and involves colour, food, freedom and the female landscape: imagined Goddesses, glimpsed strangers, close friends, personal female heroines, self portraits, all surrounded by symbols from my inner life. Images created with passion can take on immense power. Some of my work has, I strongly believe, the same sort of power, presence, and ability to alter one's mental state (to the good) that is sometimes found in religious folk art and tribal art. Many of the works are embellished with buttons, broken jewellery, toys, and other bits of profound junk. Half my time is spent obsessively trawling for junk, and the other half, obsessively putting it all together.

A MEMORABLE EXHIBITION!

The Raw Arts Festival is now over, and has entered into history, indeed it is taking on the status of legend. Many friendships were made, many contacts forged, and the art was electrifying, stunning and unforgettable.  I personally cooked a gorgeous (if I say so myself) lunch for all 70 artists on hanging day, and we all inspired and delighted each other and the viewers who wandered in to take a peek at all the excitement. 

MORE EVENTS

Art 4 People

19-21 August 2005

Powder Mill Barn

32 South Maple Street

Enfield, Connecticut

This summer art fair promises to be a colourful and exuberant  happening.  

	2 0 0 5 a r t			4 P E O P L E festival of modern art & ideas		Designed to reconnect contemporary creators with the community,   "The Art 4 People Festival" will feature the original work of over twenty international artists. Many of the exhibiting artists will be at the show to personally meet visitors (for more information on who will be there, click on the Featured Artists link below). The exhibit is FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
								August 19-21,  2005 Opening Night, Fri. 5-9 Sat. & Sun. 10-6 Open Mic Sat. Night  6-10 Powder Mill Barn, 32 South Maple Street Enfield CT - USA
sue kreitzman I am an expatriate New Yorker, living in London for many years. I've had a long and relatively successful career as a food writer, but several years ago something happened (I'm still not sure what) and I stopped writing and cooking, and began drawing and painting instead. It was almost as if a violent fever had overtaken me (a fever which still rages), made all the more mysterious by the fact that I had never done such a thing before. My work is completely untutored (as far as technique and materials are concerned, I make it up as I go along), intensely personal and involves colour, food, freedom and the female landscape. I paint imagined Goddesses, glimpsed strangers, close friends, my personal female heroines, both real and mythological - (Josephine Baker, Frida Kahlo, Eve, Medusa...) - and self portraits, and I surround these powerful female images with symbols from my inner life.  I am deeply moved by primitive religious art and tribal art of all kinds. Images and objects that have been created with passion   take on immense power. .  Some of my work has, I strongly believe, the same sort of power,   presence, and ability to alter one's mental state that is sometimes found in such art.    I paint on paper or on wood, with nail varnish. Many of the works on wood are embellished with buttons, broken jewelry, toys, and other bits of profound junk (I have a deep and abiding passion for profound junk). Half my time is spent obsessively trawling for junk, and the other half, obsessively putting it all together.I have had several  one woman shows, and been part of many  group shows including the legendary Raw Art Fair 2005 in London. My work appears in collections in the UK, the USA, Paris, Germany and Italy. At this time I'm painting, and creating assemblages, for the sheer visceral joy of it.  The enormous impact it has had on my life has turned me into another person entirely.

INTERNATIONAL ASSEMBLAGE ARTIST'S EXHIBITION

DIVA, Sue Kreitzman

29 September - 25 October 2005 GALLERY twenty-four / Berlin, Krossener Strasse 34, 10245 Berlin Tel/Fax (030) 516 583 53 Open Weekly: Wednesday - Saturday 14.00 - 19.00 Visit the website

INSPIRED ART FAIR 2005

17 November - 21 November 2005 The Bridge Weston Street London SE1 3QX

Josephine Baker, Sue Kreitzman

THE OTHER FACE OF THE MOON

Raw art in Italy

Villa Caruso - Bellosguardo (10 km from Florence)

March 5-26 2006

Raw Arts Festival 2006, Valencia, Spain

October 1-28 2006

Color Elefante Gallery

For some thoughts on RAW ART, click here

Painted Ladies

Sue Kreitzman

Goddesses, heroines and the female landscape

&

Karin van der Plas

Quirky and personal visions of mythology and history

17^th – 30^th July 2006

Sue Kreitzman uses nail varnish to paint glittering, iridescent female creatures bedecked with jewels, fripperies and found objects. Karin van der Plas reinvents history and mythology with oil on canvas portraying sweeping sagas, from Norse to Napoleon, with wit and vivid imagery. 

The two met whilst exhibiting at an art fair, and have become close friends, constantly trying to outdo each other in colourful storytelling, amidst much exuberant laughter and tomfoolery. 'Raw' (untutored, outside the establishment) artists, their work has few constraints; they tend to think outside the box, and make up their own techniques as they obsessively experiment with unexpected media. Sue and Karin - raw , untutored, obsessive - are united in their need to express their weird and wonderful private mythologies wherever and whenever they can.  In July, they share their inner visions with the outside world.

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