2018
George Henry Lees Building, Liverpool
Liverpool Independents Biennial
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Mike O’Shaughnessy
Illustrator / Lecturer / & other clever stuff!
Liverpool, UK
moshaughnessy.co.uk
@mickeyshona
Title: This Girl: A Drawing. Different stories.
I bought this Royal Doulton figurine in a charity shop in St.Johns Road in Waterloo Liverpool. Sonia Valde Harkess was 10 years old when she arrived from India in 1949 on the SMS Samaria. She stayed at 22 Sandon Street in Waterloo with her Mother, Grandmother, two sisters and younger brother, Michael. My mother Sonia was an Anglo Indian refugee from Dehra Dun in Uttarakhand.
The Royal Doulton girl reminded me of my mother.
We experience drawings. My story began with my mother and this Charity Shop discovery. This sketch of a small porcelain girl now exists here, in the present. This girl, its new story and you.
Mike O’Shaughnessy
Illustrator / Lecturer / & other clever stuff!
Liverpool, UK
moshaughnessy.co.uk
@mickeyshona
Title: This Girl: A Drawing. Different stories.
I bought this Royal Doulton figurine in a charity shop in St.Johns Road in Waterloo Liverpool. Sonia Valde Harkess was 10 years old when she arrived from India in 1949 on the SMS Samaria. She stayed at 22 Sandon Street in Waterloo with her Mother, Grandmother, two sisters and younger brother, Michael. My mother Sonia was an Anglo Indian refugee from Dehra Dun in Uttarakhand.
The Royal Doulton girl reminded me of my mother.
We experience drawings. My story began with my mother and this Charity Shop discovery. This sketch of a small porcelain girl now exists here, in the present. This girl, its new story and you.
