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Story by Jack Foley
'PHOTOGRAPHY,
painting and installation will combine to evoke memories of life in a Brixton
house', according to the promotional materials for a new exhibition of work
by Sri Lankan born artist, Roma Tearne, which can be viewed at the
198 Gallery in Herne Hill from September 13 to October 19.
Tearne frequently uses painting, photography, installation and daylight to
produce her work and regularly likes to explore the themes of history, memory
and a meeting of cultures.
Her exhibition, entitled The House of Small Things, will feature her
large-scale photographs (see examples on this page) of interiors with minimal
items of furniture that possess something strange about them. As viewers look
closely, they will realise the proportions don't add up.
The photographs are blown-up images of a doll’s house that she played
with as a child, in a house in Brixton.
Tearne arrived in Britain in 1964, by boat from Sri Lanka, on a journey that
took 21 days. Commenting on the jo