St. Mary’s Church
present
Ned at Redgrave: St. Edmund Returns to St. Mary's
One Day – One Chance!
St. Mary’s Church, Redgrave invite you to an exhibition of artworks by Ned Pamphilon for one day only on Saturday 4th October 2008 10.00am – 5.00pm.
Ned has just completed a show at the Cornhill Walk Shopping Centre in Bury St. Edmunds where he put his first paint to canvas since being back in the UK after returning from 10 years in Turkey. He has produced a version of St. Edmund imbued with his unique sense of the unfathomed and brings the new portrait to Redgrave Church. As Ned says,
“Research about St. Mary’s Church at Redgrave informs me that ‘we know from surviving wills of parishioners that there was a chapel dedicated to St Edmund in the north aisle in 1471.’ It will be appropriate to take my portrayal of St. Edmund to Redgrave church.”
Ned’s colourful paintings inspire vibrancy and optimism; they are paintings that can make a difference to your day; come experience the painting Albert Monroe-Marilynstein changes before your eyes!
From local schools Barningham, Ixworth and Thurston to London’s Soho, he then moved abroad. Entirely English artist Ned Pamphilon has returned from years based in Istanbul where he began his public art life presenting the first ever contemporary art exhibition within the famous 500 year old shopping centre known as the Grand Bazaar. Indeed, he is more familiar with showing his work in shopping centres, hotels and public venues than conventional art galleries, bringing diverse subject matter directly to the public encapsulating themes from Churchill to SpongeBob SquarePants, Santa to saucers; real to surreal.
Ned departed Turkey leaving behind the biggest public portrait of the nation’s founder, “Ataturk Smiling” installed at Istanbul’s Lutfi Kirdar Conference & Exhibition Centre, plus numerous artworks in the public and private domain around the world. His most ambitious aim to date was the Istanbul Bosphorus Rainbow Bridge project. Cited in the Turkish media as an unofficial cultural ambassador, Ned frequently exhibited and painted with children and adults in schools, universities, hotels and shopping centres.
“The most obstinately provocative painter I know.”
Brian Sewell, art critic The London Evening Standard
“He’s the painting wizard.”
Eloise Willcox, Barningham Primary School, aged 4
With my great life experience from happiness through misery and ultimate incarceration in Concentration Camps to the very happy present....... I have the right to judge Ned's credibility, being still very young yet cultivating his talent as a very original painter. It took him 10 years of hard work in Turkey.
Now he will build his future very quickly and even the keepers of the Bosphorus Bridge might come back to him crying: "Ned please come back and paint the Rainbow on its underside."
I urge people to come to this unique one-man show. I have seen it three times in Coney Weston - it opened my eyes. WHAT A TALENT!!
Witold Kasicki, aged 88, Veteran of 2nd World War
