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Zainap Bibi Chumroo (PGCE P/T – 2021 – Art & Design)
My name is Zainap Bibi Chumroo and I am an art Supply educator at Port Louis North SSS. I completed my BA (Hons.) Fine Arts Top-up degree from UOM and teacher’s diploma in visual arts secondary at MIE.
CONCEPT: Oblivion
Oblivion is the state of forgetting or having forgotten. One cannot disagree that most of the young people of today either has no notion of their history or are completely oblivious to the contribution of the women that came to work in the sugar cane fields as indentured labourers brought for this country. Hence my artwork is a way to celebrate the contribution of the women in my family who were sugarcane field workers and whose families came to Mauritius for the purpose of the indentured labourer.
In a way, indentured labourers were women in exile and it might not be wrong to say that Mauritius today is partly moving to such a forward development through the contribution of these women in exile as workers.
My Artworks - Painting
Title: Oblivion 1
Title: Oblivion 1
Technique: Painting
Dimensions: 70 cms X 50 cms
Old woman looking at the past and is dissolving in the future; due to people forgetting her that she contributed. Small Painting showing women working in sugar fields, Colonial boats bringing indentured labourers to Mauritius and Mauritius now with all the forward development. The blue colour is associated with wisdom, melancholic nature, freedom and blue is also the colour of technology hence the colour of the future. It will also show the melancholy and nostalgic past. I intentionally keep the background plain as I focus on the subject matter while valorizing the main idea.
My Artworks - My Sculpture
Title: Oblivion 2
Title: Oblivion 2
Technique: Assemblage with sugar cane leaves
Dimensions: 40 cms X 40 cms X 20 cms
Woman cutting sugar cane with wires, cardboard and sugarcane leaves assemblage.
My Artworks - Fabric Design
Title: Oblivion 3
Title: Oblivion 3
Technique: Photography
Dimensions: variable
I opted to use black and white to emphasize the idea of the past. The roots show my link from the past to the future. The growth demonstrates the evolution of my family and the country from the sugarcane history. The blossoming depicts how our future is still blooming from the sugarcane field history,
My Powerpoints
Presentation of Local and regional artists
Presentation on local and regional artists.pptxPresentation of Innovative Lesson Plan
Zainap Chumroo, Innovative lesson plan.pptxMy Portfolio
OBLIVION portfolio.pptxMy Overall Reflection
This assignment helped me not only in my professional development but also in my personal development. I went out of my comfort zone and acquired the perspectives of my grandmother and this helped me to see myself, the women in my family and my country differently. Furthermore having specialization in painting and needing to work on other media also challenged my knowledge and made me grow in terms of techniques and experiences.
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