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Berry Bickle (born 1959) is a Zimbabwean artist who resides in Maputo. Born in Bulawayo, Bickle attended the Chisipite High School in Harare. Later, she attended the Durban Institute of Technology, where she obtained a national diploma in fine arts, and South Africa's Rhodes University, where she obtained a master's degree in fine arts.〔 She divides her time between Zimbabwe and Mozambique, and works with the region's history of colonialism. In 1988, she and Tapfuma Gutsa organised the Pachipamwe workshop, the first Triangle Art Trust workshop organised in Africa.〔Pachipamwe International Artists' Workshop is held annually in Zimbabwe between 1988 to 1994. (Set of images of the workshop ).〕 In 2010 she became a Rockefeller Foundation Creative Arts Fellow and she works at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center on the series ''Suite Europa''. == Work == Her works are generally installations, and are mixed media works which incorporate script; some include video and photography. She has collaborated with the Peruvian artist Adrian Velasquez. The exhibition and the publication ''Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems in African Art''〔''Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems in African Art'', curated by Chistine Mullen Kreamer, Mary Nooter Roberts, Elizabeth Harney, Allyson Purpura, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, 2007.〕 highlight the presence of texts in Bickle's work and the importance of the act of writing and of collecting words; in this frame, the artist labels her work "Re-Writes".〔Berry Bickle, ''Re-Writes'' in ''Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems in African Art'', curated by Chistine Mullen Kreamer, Mary Nooter Roberts, Elizabeth Harney, Allyson Purpura, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, 2007, p. 227-229; in particular the text refers to the works ''Wandering'', ''Sarungano'', ''Pessoa bowls series''.〕 * "Maputo Utopias" series.〔(from the series "Maputo Utopias", 2007 on IFA gallery website http://www.ifa.de/en/exhibitions/dt/past-exhibitions/2008/bamako-2007/berry-bickle/ ).〕 * ''Suite Europa'', 2010. The series was produced during a residency at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center. * Sleeping beauty, 2008 * Cyrene * Inheritance lost library * ''Wandering'' * ''Sarungano'' * ''Pessoa bowls series'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Berry Bickle」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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