Cancelled UHI Moray Gaza art exhibit saved as organisers find new venue
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AN art exhibit which is aiming to raise funds for an artist trapped in Gaza has been saved after a cancellation by UHI Moray.
The exhibit, which will showcase the "slaughter of men, women and children" in Gaza, was meant to be held in Elgin on Thursday (February 15).
However, UHI Moray advised organisers with one week's notice that they could no longer hold the exhibit at the venue because of promotional material the university deemed as being from a "partisan viewpoint".
Artist-curator Georgina Porteous accused UHI Moray of "bowing to cancel culture" but said that the exhibit will still run thanks to the WASPS Links Studio in Nairn.
The exhibit includes work by Palestinian Feda’a Al-Hassanet who is trapped in Gaza.
Ms Porteous said: "We are hoping to raise some funds to help Feda’a who like everyone in Gaza is slowly being starved by Israel.
"After the initial finding of the International Court of Justice of ‘plausible’ genocide, it seems absurd to consider that it is ‘partisan’ to hold an exhibition drawing attention to what is happening there now.
“We are very grateful to WASPS for enabling the show to go on.
"It had taken many months to organise after UHI Moray originally offered me the space last summer and being given little notice of the cancellation was highly stressful.
"The reason given that promotional material for the show was ‘partisan’ seems rather ridiculous given the International Court of Justice preliminary verdict of a plausible risk of genocide, which the whole world can see in the horrible death toll day after day."
The exhibit, titled "Opening of a Fragile Pot", will now run from Saturday until the end of the month at its new venue.
