This Is Me is ClementJames’ annual themed exhibition. This year the theme is Connection. We’ve had wonderful submissions from clients and students at ClementJames and beyond. Please take a moment to have a look at the amazing artwork submitted!
The world in standstill over a pandemic Connection of blocks representing being stuck indoors in a small space Connection of Elements


Don’t look back When will I see you again A passageway in time






![White digital document with four oval images of relaxation.
Title: This Is Me
Words: A Holistic Therapist Pauline Sterling a student in the ICT EL3 Class.
The picture represents me as a clipart illustration [picture of a spa session with a therapist].
I love giving treatments to clients as it enables them to relieve their stress in the trouble times of life.
I also find it therapeutic giving the treatments.
Using Aromatherapy opens senses to various sense of comfort, emotional memories and deep Relaxation.
A wonderful sense of relief and retreat from the world. Become in tune with oneself
Hot stones, great for stress relief sense of relaxation
It relieves deep pain from body for a 2 week span before another treatment
Pauline Sterling ICT EL3 Class](https://clementjames.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Pauline-Sterling.png)










What connection means to me
Yvette Powell
What connection means to me is to be linked
Be part of
It also means to be seen, to be heard
To be asked your opinion
To feel as if you’re needed
To be essential
To be acknowledged
To be joined
No.9 Angel of the North The Cecil Brewer Staircase

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Ball and chain Wrestling










Kamitan Arts
Artwork shared courtesy of local arts organisation, Kamitan Arts.
The Gallery of Me
Sherry Shill
I like neck frills up high
Belts that buckle to one side
I like warm winter days
Sunshine, winding coastlines
I like delicate fabrics
Spiders’ webs
I like silk
The aroma of warm cinnamon
Nutmeg, breadfruit, plantain
I like platinum pieces
Old gold, creams and blues
I like solid bold reds, purples
I like jewelled toned hues
I like magical mornings
When all else is asleep
I like blue skies
Being up high
I like using my wings
I like silence
I like cellos
I like harps
I like seas
I like rivers
I like oceans
I like birds, cats and trees
Words though lovely
Their volume
Sometimes drown
Subtle keys
So the essence of all this
Is to like being me
Kindred Kindred Inception Reflection
“Kindred souls will always cross destined paths. These pieces of artwork were developed during Kamitan Arts’ ‘VAP – Virtual Acoustic Poetry’ Art sessions online during the COVID pandemic. Initiated and developed in the last semester with guest artist Andrew Cooper who asked us to use different materials and motions to create the background to one of our favourite objects or toys at home, we also used lucid dreaming techniques, and glazing. Acrylic paint, a small wash sponge and paint brushes, were used to create this piece.”

“I walk alone in this path of life, or do I? These pieces of artwork were developed during Kamitan Arts’ ‘VAP – Virtual Acoustic Poetry’ Art sessions online during the COVID pandemic. Initiated and developed in the last semester with guest artist Andrew Cooper who asked us to use different materials and motions to create the background to one of our favourite objects or toys at home, we also used lucid dreaming techniques and glazing. Acrylic paint, a small wash sponge and paint brushes, were used to create this piece.”




CONNECTION
Wendy Young
Friday is ‘connect day’ with my fam
I’m switched onto Wi-Fi – cosy
Electric green glow of the hub
Workaday laptop fixed to the mains
We go back to blank
So I’m careful to unplug
Don’t want to miss VAP
Tonight at 7 pm
Yeah sometimes the Universe is slow to project
Sit patiently ’til ‘the host lets us in’
Sometimes there’s problems with ‘tech’
Conzoomed – folks gather
Wonder Rhonda on the button
Is our Angel at the gate
Empress Emmanuelle
Glamorous hostess
Lives up the name – our
Goddess of the Word Power
Has a plethora
Of wondrous connections
Who entertain and heal
We hear – we see – we feel
VAP Band babes
VAP Band ‘where you at?’
Sarah – Koralinka – Aaron – Anna
Soothe us – ooze us – bedazzle us
Skills of the world – poetry and music
Bond this onscreen gallery
Artistes all – we open up
Sharing is caring so we take the mic
Grand finale – sometimes a dance
Positivity in motion – stretching our limbs
Miraculous Junior Tomlin
Artist in Rez – manages to capture
Our character – our essence
And regular believers – too many to mention
Lead us all to a peaceful night
And filling in the online poll
When asked what you got from the session
I click on various options and always ‘Connection’






Taken from the “Poetry 4 Grenfell: Voices from da Grove and Latimer” book and project by Kamitan Arts.
Work kindly produced by Kamitan Arts. Some of the work was produced for the Kamitan Arts “Poetry 4 Grenfell – Voices from da Grove and Latimer” book, a book of tributes created by the local community in response to Grenfell and curated and edited by Princess Emmanuelle.