by Heather Spears
In 1989, Heather Spears spent six weeks in East Jerusalem, Gaza and the West Bank, drawing swiftly in pencil and chalk on the backs of brown envelopes, the children of the Intifada, the Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation. There are 300 drawings in this body of work. The children, depicted in the drawings, wrote across the work in Arabic. Iktamal, a four-year old youngster playing near Tayasir on the West Bank, was one of these unfortunate children. He was killed by a grenade dropped from an Israeli helicopter. The drawings were brought secretly out of Israel; they bear witness to the individual lives of children caught up conflict. An illustrated catalogue was created out of Heather Spears' work.
More information is available at her website.
