{"id":562,"date":"2011-07-04T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/2011\/one-fabulous-launch-and-an-amazing-work-of-the-heart\/"},"modified":"2011-07-04T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T16:30:00","slug":"one-fabulous-launch-and-an-amazing-work-of-the-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/one-fabulous-launch-and-an-amazing-work-of-the-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"One fabulous launch and an amazing work of the heart"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Hospital Mosaic Project was launched last Thursday – unveiled by internationally renowned mosaic artist, Martin Cheek <\/a>(photo left) and Philip Holmes (photo right) to reveal a wall of over 100 mosaics by artists from all around the world (including yours truly). Everyone gasped – and rightly so.<\/p>\n

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My mosaic is bottom row, second in from the left<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Me and my ‘Circles’!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

To top the launch of this awesome piece of public art was the heart behind it. Mosaic Artist, Karla Duterloo,<\/a> invited all contributing artists to learn about (and donate to) the work of the Esther Benjamin Trust<\/a>. At the launch, founder, Philip Holmes, spoke of the work they do with the forgotten children of Nepal (“last week we rescued 9 children from slavery in the Indian circus trade<\/em>“) and how the work started as a tribute to his loving wife, Esther Benjamin, who took her own life due to the pain of childlessness. The charity has created a career path in mosaic-making for many of the rescued young people, giving them hope and a future. It was deeply moving listening to Philip describe in detail the work they do with such passion. Please do visit their website – they are about to launch the US arm of their charity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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From left: two hospital officials, Martin Cheek, Karla Duterloo, local Mayors, Philip Holmes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Both these wonderful initiatives are a clear example of art bringing life<\/strong><\/em> don’t you think? And, if you are a regular reader here, ou will know that I deeply connect to anything that transforms bad stuff to good…<\/p>\n

If you want to see each mosaic in detail, you can order a copy of the book from blurb here<\/a>. If you want to see the real thing (photos never<\/em> do mosaics justice) you can go and see it at the Central Middlesex Hospital, Transport Lounge, Acton Lane, London NW10 7NS. The nearest tubes are Harlesden and North Acton. Well <\/em>worth a visit!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Hospital Mosaic Project was launched last Thursday – unveiled by internationally renowned mosaic artist, Martin Cheek (photo left) and Philip Holmes (photo right) to reveal a wall of over 100 mosaics by artists from all around the world (including yours truly). Everyone gasped – and rightly so. My mosaic is bottom row, second in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,17,18,19,22,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-mosaics","category-mosaic-exhibitions","category-mosaic-loving","category-mosaics-by-others","category-concetta-perot-mosaics","category-tranforming-broken-ness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}