Selected Exhibitions
Solo & Group Exhibition from 1993 – 2017
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS.
2014: Vierraumladen Galerie Berlin Germany
2013: Vierraumladen Galerie Berlin Germany
2002: l’Alliance Française de Vancouver BC Canada
1999: Portraits from Bambala – The Cellar Jazz Cafe Gallery – Vancouver BC Canada
1998: Foliage of Time I- LageHaus-Bremen Germany
1998: The Matrix of Consciousness II – French Cultural Centre Vancouver BC Canada
1997: Exhibition titled ” The ephemeral measure “. The Donut House Co. Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
1996: Exhibition titled ” The Matrix of consciousness ” University of Montreal Quebec. Foyer Marie Gerin-Lajoie.
1995: Exhibition titled ” Earth; a Perennial Passage ” The Alliance Francaise de Vancouver; Vancouver, B.C.
1993: Exhibition titled ” Convolutions of the Psyche ” The British Council Yaounde Cameroon.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
1997: Fourth International Conference of the Visual Arts. Simon Fraser University, Harbor Center. Vancouver, B.C. Round House Community Center.
1996: Exhibition titled ” The Matrix of Consciousness I “ With Carlyle Matthew, The Amelia Douglas Gallery. Douglas College; New Westminster Vancouver; B.C.
1995: A contemporary Exhibit of African and Canadian Visual Artists; The Quick House of Jazz, Beatty St. Vancouver, B.C.
1995: Contemporary Exhibit of African & Canadian Visual Artists; The French Cultural Center Vancouver, B.C.
1995: Contemporary Exhibit of African & Canadian Visual Artists. The Harrison Festival of the Arts & Music.
1995: Contemporary Exhibit of African Visual Art. Pacific Cinematheque; Vancouver, B.C.
1995: Exhibit of Contemporary African & AfroCanadian Visual Artists; Sub Art Gallery; University of British Columbia. Vancouver, B.C.
1994: Exhibit of African & Afro Canadian Visual Artists. The Gallery Lounge University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. 1994: Exhibit of African & Afro Canadian Visual Artists; The Royal Museum of British Columbia; Victoria; B.C.
1993: A saloon of Cameroonian & Canadian Visual Artists; The French Cultural Center Yaounde; Cameroon.
1993: A saloon of Contemporary Cameroonian Visual Art. The French Cultural Center, Yaounde Cameroon.
1993: Saloon of Sculptors & Painters. Hotel De Ville Yaounde; Cameroon.
Selected Public Commissions & Collaborative Work.
1995: Mural Commissioned by the Coastal Jazz and Blues Society; for the annual Du Maurier Jazz Festival; Vancouver, B.C. in Collaboration with Claudine Pommier, Jeanie Kammens and Khadjeda.
1994: Mural Commissioned by the Downtown Vancouver better Business Improvement Association. In Collaboration with Thomas Anfield & Richard Tetrault.
Several Public Workshops and Presentations; In Vancouver and in Montreal, has also appeared in the Film African Brush Strokes, a Documentary by David Pettigrew published by Temple Films Vancouver. B.C.
Projects & Exhibitions
Brief Synopsis on Exhibitions & Projects
The Witness and the Metallic Ant
In The Night It had been an unusual night, with its own peculiarly cheeky and persistent chilliness, emphasised and accentuated even more with strong and gusty winds. Billowing
The Incantatory Savannah Chants & Idioms of the Drums
The Morning Credo Twi’twi! twi’lilililili~~~ | twi’twi’twi~~~ The sounds came streaming in, not in an intrusive manner, rather like a calming prelude, transmitting
Unfolding Orders & Identities
What is the identity of a being/thing? An individual’s existence is the culmination of a painstaking, patient, diligent & vast aggregation of "continuous variegated processes", the garnering, convergence
African Market I
The marketplace as a confluence point, as a converging pivot around which some elements & essences of a society come together in a concordant and harmonic flux of
The Numinous Themes & The Evocation Idioms II
Floating Stanzas Life can often be strange sometimes. It’s mysterious depth are always unfolding and touching upon everything in unfathomable ways, invigorating the mind and movement of things
Numinous Themes & The Evocation Idioms I
Poignant Structures.Tiny droplets, lingering on the leaves and foliage where the only indication that there had been a slight shower, but the Earth also smell strongly of the
The Quantum Dance I & The Invocation Idioms, Project 2017
The Numinous Themes & the Evocation Idioms II – 2014.
The Numinous Themes & the Evocation Idioms I – 2013.
Frequently Encountered Questions
Some definitions, key concepts and answers to common questions
How do we perceive a thing? What & who is it that is perceiving? What is it to perceive beyond the realm of thought & thinking?
mid 16th cent. (in the general sense ‘quantity’): from Latin, neuter of quantus. In Physics, a discrete quantity of energy proportional in magnitude to the frequency of the radiation it represents.
mid 17th cent.: from Latin numen, numin- ‘divine will’ + -ous.
adjective:
having a strong religious or spiritual quality; indicating or suggesting the presence of a divinity: the strange, numinous beauty of this ancient landmark.
Synesthesia; the production of a sense impression relating to one sense or part of the body by stimulation of another sense or part of the body.
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late 19th cent.: modern Latin, from syn-‘with’, on the pattern of anaesthesia.
The arrangement or disposition of people or things in relation to each other according to a particular sequence, pattern, or method: I filed the cards in alphabetical order.
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Middle English: from Old French ordre, from Latin ordo, ordin- ‘row, series, rank’.
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late Middle English: from French mythologie, or via late Latin from Greek muthologia, from muthos ‘myth’ + –
A particle representing a quantum of light or other electromagnetic radiation. A photon carries energy proportional to the radiation frequency but has zero rest mass.
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early 20th cent.: from Greek phōs, phōt- ‘light’, on the pattern of electron.
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Middle English: from Latin abstractus, literally ‘drawn away’, past participle of abstrahere, from ab- ‘from’ + trahere ‘draw off’.
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late 19th cent.: from French hypnagogique, from Greek hupnos ‘sleep’ + agōgos ‘leading’ (from agein ‘to lead’).
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late Middle English: from late Latin confluentia, from Latin confluere ‘flow together’
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late Middle English (in the sense ‘womb’): from Latin, ‘breeding female’, later ‘womb’, from mater, matr- ‘mother’.
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late 16th cent. (in the sense ‘quality of being identical’): from late Latin identitas, from Latin idem ‘same’.
“Perceptions & apprehension of different layers of reality are a common intertwining & interweaving thread of entangled relatedness, a connectedness between things and the nature of things.”
“Decoding these symbols, may unravel & unlock their embedded meaning & impart derivative context, connecting them with personalised experiences to create or evoke holographic maps with variegated subjects & themes that may cover, philosophy, myths, religion, mythology, music, art, poetry, science & other every day life objects & subjects.”