Exploring Colonialism through Plant Motifs. Creative Workshop with Simbah Pilé

Saturday 26 November 2022 14.00-17.00 pm @ 44AD artspace basement studio

Sugar (cane), cotton and tobacco are the plants most associated with the colonial period. However, it is lesser known that the entire colonial enterprise was fuelled by a wider and more in-depth botanical rush, which resulted in many of the ‘decorative’, medicinal, and staple food plants used in the United Kingdom today. In this workshop we will endeavour to engage creatively through the method of collage and mixed media, with the complicated history of the European botanical rush and colonisation of other countries and people and how it is still present and silently interacting with our day to day lives. We will utilise plant motifs some of which will be previously collected / gathered from around the city of Bath, others will be of commonly overlooked house and garden plants that were introduced to this country by colonial botanist.

Simbah Pilé isa contemporary Barbadian artist living and working in the UK. She graduated from Barbados Community College with a Fine Art Degree in 2009 and she curated her first exhibition in 2011 focusing on Contemporary Illustrations in Barbados. Later that year she represented the Caribbean and in the Wasanii International Artist Workshop “In Conversation”. Her work includes painting, murals, watercolour, collages, drawing, mixed media, printmaking, video, illustrations, paperworks and digital art. She exhibited in Africa, Europe and the Caribbean.

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