{"id":124671,"date":"2025-09-07T03:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T03:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/124671\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T03:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T03:50:09","slug":"refugees-showcase-their-art-at-exhibition-in-wiltshire-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/124671\/","title":{"rendered":"Refugees showcase their art at exhibition in Wiltshire gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alexandra BassinghamBBC News, West of England<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1756963147_457_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dkIvM hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6ed64770-896e-11f0-9df7-33c9b75a833d.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Mariamu Byadunia A black and white charcoal drawing of a young boy from Kenya with dark skin with his hands clasped in front of him in what looks like a pleading pose and with his face almost desperately pleading, with his eyes closed and mouth open.&#10;In a thought bubble beside him is a bowl of food, showing what he is wishing for. &#10;The sketch shows him wearing a black vest and there is what looks like a sun in the sky. &#10;\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dvfjxj\"\/>Mariamu Byadunia<\/p>\n<p>Artists at the Kakuma Art Project in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya, created the work which will be shown in Salisbury<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">An exhibition showcasing the art of refugees in Kenya in which they tell their &#8220;extraordinary&#8221; stories is opening in Wiltshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Refugees created the work at the Kakuma Art Project in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya, will be shown at Vanner Gallery in Salisbury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Tara Dominick, a fine artist from Devon, is involved with the group and said they had opened her eyes &#8220;to the extraordinary stories that refugees carry&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The Power of One Painting exhibition opens on Sunday and continues on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1756963147_457_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dkIvM hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/52c551c0-8969-11f0-9df7-33c9b75a833d.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Hubert Senga &amp; refugee artists A selection of the artists at the Kakuma Art Project in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya. They are wearing casual clothes, with many in jeans, and shirts, T-shirts and hoodies in different colours, including red, blue, pink and white.&#10;There are 14 pictures being held up that show their own stories of being a refugee, with the pictures ranging from showing hope, hunger, prayers and journeys. &#10;They stand in front of a building with blue poles and made of wood. \" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dvfjxj\"\/>Hubert Senga &amp; refugee artists<\/p>\n<p>Artists living at the Kakuma camp are being offered support through the Kakuma Art Project<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The Kakuma Art Project was inspired by a painting by Ms Dominick named Boat which showed refugees packed onto a boat at sea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">It started a conversation between Ms Dominick and Hubert Senya at the camp and the art project was founded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Ms Dominick said it provides artists at the camp with education, visibility, and opportunity, which is supported by a series of workshops.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">She said it had been &#8220;profoundly moving&#8221; to see their experiences expressed through the visual medium of art &#8220;and to witness how healing it is for them to be truly seen and heard through their work&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1756963147_457_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dkIvM hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/55cfc0b0-896b-11f0-b391-6936825093bd.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Kuachi Gai A picture in colour by Kuachi Gai showing two hands, one holding a torch giving off a flame and then vibrant rainbow shards of light. The hands are caught up in a black net. \" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dvfjxj\"\/>Kuachi Gai<\/p>\n<p>Ms Dominick said getting to know the refugees and seeing their art work had opened her eyes to their &#8220;extraordinary stories&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Kakuma camp is home to about 300,000 refugees from different African countries who &#8220;fled famine, persecution and conflict,&#8221; Ms Dominick said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;[So] the opportunity for them to be exhibited here in the UK at The Vanner Gallery is more than miraculous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;I would not have thought one painting could impact quite so many lives, not just the refugees but also the community of wonderful supporters here in the UK, who made a bespoke art gallery at the camp possible,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The whole process had supported the artists to become more confident which was  &#8220;extremely heart-warming&#8221;, she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alexandra BassinghamBBC News, West of England Mariamu Byadunia Artists at the Kakuma Art Project in Kakuma Refugee Camp,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134],"class_list":["post-124671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}