The Art House Siem Reap Cambodia is located across from the old market. The Art House Siem Reap shows up and coming Khmer artists. Come and visit our art gallery upstairs from The Warehouse Bar.

'Celebrating our Life in Art'
24th February - 4th March 2008

In November and December 2007 British artist Sasha Constable and local
artist Oun Savann led painting workshops with eight young women with
physical disabilities who are part of the Handicap International
rehabilitation programme and also twenty three children who currently
reside at the Land Mine Museum near Banteay Srei temple in Siem Reap
Province. The workshops were conducted as part of the SPOTLIGHT
Festival organized by Epic Arts and Handicap International Belgium,
funded by the Nippon Foundation.

It is the results of these two workshops that are on show in The Art
House gallery from Feb 21-March 4 and in the grounds of Raffles Grand
Hotel D'Angkor Royal Park during the "Celebrating Differences" event
on February 24th. The workshops were the first opportunity that these
young people had had in exploring their creativity through the medium
of painting. The participants were given lessons in colour theory,
composition and proportion and then work was created on the theme of
self portraiture and the participant?s lives and ambitions.

Alongside the paintings by the young women and children with
disabilities, The Art House is also exhibiting work by comic artist Em
Satya. Em Satya has illustrated children?s books, book covers,
cartoons for Rasmei Kampuchea, as well as his own publications for
decades. ?Bopha Battambang?, his first graphic novel was published in
2007. The art work on show are comic illustrations created since a
stroke paralysed Satya?s drawing hand resulting in him having to
re-learn how to draw again.

SPOTLIGHT is the first ever inclusive arts festival to be held in
Cambodia. The Epic Arts team created this festival with the hope that
in the future SPOTLIGHT could be produced by similar organisations in
other Asian countries, one day soon becoming a signature disability
arts event within the region.

All the Art work is for sale. A percentage of sales will be used to
set up trust funds for all the participants. In the future we hope to
continue art workshops with these young people as a way for them to
earn some income and also fulfil their creative abilities.

www.epicarts.org.uk/cambodia.htm
www.hib-cambodia.org
www.ourbookscambodia.org
www.nippon-foundation.or.jp