Maurice Blik: The Art of Survival

Nationwide arts festival celebrating refugees from Nazi Europe and their contribution to British cultureMarch 2020 marked the official end of the festival, but also the beginning of a longer-term commitment to celebrating the impact of this remarkable generation of émigrés under the Insiders/Outsiders umbrella

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Sculptor, art educator & Holocaust survivor Maurice Blik talking about his new book, Maurice Blik, The Art of Survival – An Artobiography.

Maurice Blik has lived in England ever since being liberated from Bergen-Belsen, where he was taken as a small child from his birthplace, Amsterdam. The ability to come to terms with this experience, and to confront the face of (in)humanity that he had witnessed, stayed silent in his life for some forty years. It finally found a voice in the late 1980s when he created a passionate series of horses’ heads; he later progressed to sculptures of the human figure in which the irrepressible joy of life and the destructive, impenetrable shadow of existence co-exist to form a precarious unity.Maurice Blik has had a long career in art education, teaching at all levels from primary to postgraduate. In 1991, however, he gave up teaching to work fulltime as a sculptor. In 1996 he was elected President of the Royal Society of British Sculptors, and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.For further information about Maurice, click <a href="https://www.mauriceblik.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>. Please note that the book will be available at a discount of £10 to those attending this event. Whether ordered via Maurice Blik’s <a href="https://www.mauriceblik.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">website</a> or from the <a href="https://www.heavypress.ink/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">publisher</a>, use the discount code READING EVENT.This event is free, but in order to help us continue our activities, a donation of at least £5 per booking would be hugely appreciated. To donate, click <a href="https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/support-us/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>.

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