freedomhouse-art is a world wide community-house for art, information and education for freedom; a workplace for voices and faces for freedom, facilitating communication between cultures, outer and inner worlds, the personal and the collective. Freedom House Art, founded by Iris De Leeuw offers a place for dialogue through the world wide web as well as events, such as the ‘Art as a tool for freedom’ held at the Roosevelt Academy in Middelburg , Holland May 2010.

The idea for freedomhouse-art was inspired by Eleonor Roosevelt's international organisation ‘Freedom House for democracy, political freedom and human rights’. www.freedomhouse.org Founded in 1941 it made "a clear voice for democracy and freedom in the world". Her life and work have inspired us to create freedomhouse-art. Eleanor Roosevelt felt strongly that American society had not done enough to support the arts.

Eleonor Roosevelt speaks about the universal declaration of human rights, though in our time a review on the standing of universal human rights might be useful in the view of civil unrest in autocratic societies and surplanted forms of democracy. freedomhouse-art likes to inspire a discussion on the issue’s of human rights and universality versus relativity as a start to publish inter-cultural faces4freedom on global and local inter-active social networks.

freedomhouse-art wants to be a Clearinghouse and archive for art and freedom in world situations, searching for discriminative creative approaches to communicate, understand, accept and enrich life’s experience. To find other values on freedom will improve tolerance and world peace.

 

Inspiration Day, Den Haag , Holland September 2010

Iris De Leeuw and myself through Freedomhouse Art participated in a discussion between Dutch parliamentarians, human rights lawyers, curators and educationalists on how to reshape a curriculum and advising on how printmaking to effectively be used teach human rights in the 21st century.

 



Sprezzatura, Der Druckery, Middelburg, Holland May.June 2011

The show by Iris de Leeuw and myself ‘Sprezzatura and the Art of living’, connected to The Four Freedoms, highlights the Freedom from Want by celebrating and reminding us of the abundance in everyday life in some parts of the world.

   

 
 
   
 
Colourby2 is a continuous creative exchange with Sarita Sundar and the Trapeze Gallery in Bangalore, India
     
       
     
       
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Hidden Impact , Bristol September 2009

The Hidden Impact project focused on showing prints in unexpected places, as in churches, public toilets and shop window.These prints then formed a trail.

The project was carried out with collaborator Anna Harley, on Great George Street in central Bristol.The work- which subverted real estate placards, was site-specific and developed through an on going dialogue with the people living and working on this street. The images explored the hopes, dreams and anxieties people have in relation to their property; issues that are central to ordinary people in the current economic climate of falling house prices, the threat of redundancy and home repossession.

The prints were the same size as the real-estate placards and produced from materials and substrates found inside private homes and DIY depots, such as linoleum, wooden floors, rugs and wallpapers.

The aim was to create a visual link between the inhabitants and the audience on the street, evoking thoughts and feelings around what a home means, what it is worth and how much it costs or offers in emotional terms.

 
Title:Nest Egg
Size: 72 x 58
Media: Silkscreen
Year: 2009
Title:To live
Size: 72 x 58
Media: Silkscreen
Year: 2009
Title:To let bugs
Size: 72 x 58
Media: Silkscreen
Year: 2009

 

Puzzle Project UK Exhibition

The Wall @ Willesden Green Gallery, The Willesden Green Library Centre, London,

20 October - 12 November 2008
 
The Puzzle Project started by Mr. Inaba and Mr. Atsu in Osaka, Japan. The Puzzle project in London followed the original idea of building agiant puzzle together with participant form around the world. This time it experimented with the interplay of image and text, and surrealist poet Ronnie McGrath presented a poem based on random words contributed while the modern dancer Stanley Hamilton performed. 120 artists from Japan, the UK, Sweden, Mexico, Hungary and other countries participated.

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Laying the puzzle