Exhibitions
YEAR 3 - SENSORY ART SPECTACULAR – ART EXHIBITION FROM FRONTLINES' CAFÉ ART 2023 at the Brentwood Library.
Irene Malvezi's third year in the organising of this exhibition to display artworks from Frontline's Café
Art's participants, where she facilitates art sessions for adults with learning disabilities.
http://www.frontlinepartnership.org/cafeart.html
The exhibition was featured on The Arts Programme 177 - Pheonix FM. The interview with participants
starts on minutes 52.
https://www.phoenixfm.com/2023/08/13/the-arts-programme-177-it-was-acceptable-in-the-80s/
BRENTWOOD ART TRAIL 2023
This year is about my famous 'chickens'. They will be on display and for sale at the Brentwood Arts Therapy Centre together with my other artworks and also at the beautiful Merrymeade Tea Room in Brentwood.
YEAR 2 - SENSORY ART SPECTACULAR – ART EXHIBITION FROM FRONTLINES' CAFÉ ART 2022 at the Brentwood Library.
My second year organising this exhibition to display artworks from Frontline's Café Art's participants, where I facilitate Art Sessions for adults with learning disabilities.
http://www.frontlinepartnership.org/cafeart.html
The exhibition was featured in the local news:
https://www.inyourarea.co.uk/news/art-exhibition-returns-to-brentwood-library-for-second-year/
And also featured on The Arts Programme 81 – Phoenix FM:
https://www.phoenixfm.com/2022/08/17/arts-programme-133-art-library-rainbow-songs/
BRENTWOOD ART TRAIL 2022
My work on display this time is three small traditional flower vases oil paintings, which bring my good memories from the times I was painting in Brazil.
Art display at Patrick Green Shop in Ingatestone, Essex.
SENSORY ART SPECTACULAR – ART EXHIBITION FROM FRONTLINES CAFÉ ART 2021 at the Brentwood Library.
I organised this exhibition to display samples of artworks created by the Frontlines Café Arts participants where I facilitate Art Sessions for adults with learning disabilities.
http://www.frontlinepartnership.org/cafeart.html
It aimed to promote participants confidence in the art making process. It was a free exhibition open to the public during the librarys open hours from the 31st of July till 27th of August 2021. Many participants sold their artworks. We also had donations to Frontline to help them to carry on with more inspirational work for the community.
The exhibition was featured in the local news:
https://www.inyourarea.co.uk/news/new-art-exhibition-opens-in-brentwood/
And also on The Arts Programme 81 – Phoenix FM:
https://www.phoenixfm.com/2021/08/09/arts-programme-81/
BRENTWOOD ART TRAIL 2021
Four artists, including myself, displayed artworks at The Gates for this year's Brentwood Art Trail. The public also saw many art installations created by The Gates' regular participants around its gardens.
Art display at The Gates – London Road, Brentwood.
LAUDERDALE HOUSE
Touching Nature: Touched by Nature: An Environmental Arts Therapy Exhibition - 14th October- 9th November 2020 – London N5 6HG
Poster design and illustration by Irene Malvezi
This environmental arts therapy exhibition brings together a range of visual art responses to working in nature from twenty artists who are also trainees, practitioners or participants of environmental arts therapy, and therapists who have a passion for working out of doors or bringing nature in to the studio. The exhibition will focus on art works made (constructed in, made-from) nature, natural materials and locations.
Environmental arts therapy can support our relationship with Nature through our creative responses to what happens when we attune to the natural world. This exhibition and accompanying documented narratives seek to raise awareness of the work we do and to inspire others to do so also. As therapists we hold, facilitate and navigate conflict and tension in our pursuit towards seeking balance and harmony, when we take our creative arts therapies outdoors we find that Nature provides everything we need.
Contributing artists:
Gary Nash - Vanessa Jones - Ian Siddons Heginworth - Louise Fitzpatrick - Auriel Eagleton - Simon Woodward - Molly Wolfe - Victoria Chisholm - Jamie Bird - Irene Malvezi - Jess Linton - Karen Raingold - Sarah Scott - Laura Butt - Sandra Keating - Sally Webster - Pom Stanley - Amanda Lebus - Anna Leichensteiger - Lydia Boon - Mary-Jayne Rust - Nathalie de Chivre - Sarah Bargiela - David Little - Belinda Hunt - Samantha Hickman - Katrina Bennett
Irene Malvezi's art pieces on display:
Balance – Right Breast Healing Journey
Twigs, cloths, clay, rose petals, seeds, acrylics, strings and beads on board.
framed 72.5 x 52.5cm
This is a depiction of my personal healing journey with breast cancer. It shows my belief in the power of nature to help me to understand and to heal any imbalances in both my psyche and physical bodies. From bottom to top: an internal mind visualisation of my breasts. Left breast: a tree in silent starry night, cool and peaceful. Right breast: a tree in agitation, hot and in constant action. As the images progress, the left tree donates its calming energy to pacify and to detoxify the right tree. At the top both trees become harmonious and balanced symbolising two healthy breasts.
Natural Assertion (Tree)
Tree bark, twigs, cloths, clay, wire, glue, acrylics, strings, shells, plastic and pebbles on canvas.
framed 105 x 105cm
This TREE artwork was my Art Psychotherapy Masters Degree's final piece at Goldsmiths in 2018. At the time it was symbolic of personal memories, continuous learning, growth¬, endurance, changes and transformations. However, its creation process was a confident statement of belief that I was going to take Art Psychotherapy outdoors. It was a natural wish that I developed during my course and of which I had to learn elsewhere, as subject was not included in any module. Happily I have now begun to work in this way, helping those wanting to tap into their self-awareness alongside nature.
Weald Park Wellness Group Collective
framed: 64.5 x 49.5cm
I formed the group in January 2019 and since we have been delivering various outdoor therapeutic/healing/art workshops at Weald Country Park in Brentwood, Essex. It is a focus group for all adults, which aims to promote the physical, emotional and spiritual benefits of being in nature. We welcome adults with learning disabilities. Please check out our Facebook Group page (Weald Park Wellness Group) for more information or at www.irenemalvezi.co.uk
QUEENS WOOD CAFÉ GALLERY
A complementary show to Touching Nature: Touched by Nature: An Environmental Arts Therapy Exhibition - 14th October- 9th November 2020 – London N10 3JP
Irene Malvezi - Home's River
Fabrics, fabric hardener, string, clay and wax paint on canvas.
Framed: 24cm x 24cm
This is about loss and life, our multi-layered unconscious and the therapist role. Loss is symbolised by the tortoise, my pet that died trapped under the debris brought by floodwaters. Life is symbolised by the bird that I saved from the strong floodwaters' current. The multi-layered nature of this artwork is a representation of the depth and the chaos of the unconscious. The river in the centre symbolises the therapist's role as a way through the unconscious to bring understanding of our relationships with our inner and outer worlds.