Deborah Ravetz

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Debra Ravetz was born in Zambia in 1957 and for the first ten years of her life lived in Africa with her grandparents.  She grew up surrounded by the generation who had fought in the Second World War. This meant the adults around her were  suffering from trauma in a culture that had no language to comfort them or permission to acknowledge how they felt.

The poet Nelly Sacks says that the wounds in history are held open by the wings of a great being. She believed it was important that those wounds did not heal. For her the wounds were an opportunity for human being to deepen and learn. Deborah's work seeks to discover ways of facing and working with soul pain.  Consumerism on the other hand suggests we tranquilize ourselves thus loosing the opportunities our inner  struggles  present us with.

Deborah studied Literature and Philosophy at York University and Fine Art In Edinburgh and  Aberdeen. A painter , writer and art historian she explores the life and work of artists to make visible the development of human consciousness, the reality of our connections with history and its relevance to our own biography.

For many years she lived in a community inspired by the work of Rudolf Steiner and now works in collaborative projects with actors, other artists and dancers.

Her Agenda is concearned with what is sometimes called heart politics; that  which connects the personal with the political. She is interested in Social Sculpture because she has a sense  that it may help communicate questions and concerns in a more potent form.