Obituary: Lesley Perkes 17.06.1961-13.02.2015
Even on her deathbed, public art activist Lesley Perkes dreamed of a new city. At her funeral last Sunday, the cultural community turned out in force to say goodbye. Charlotte Bauer remembers her
Lesley Perkes was the good fairy of public art. But she was never airy-fairy.
It was her passion to turn plain things – grim buildings, scrappy street corners – into arresting works of art. It was her power to make it happen.
That she succeeded in getting so much public art on to the streets of this country – despite the expense, the political protocols, the demands of city partners and corporate sponsors and the temperaments of artists – was remarkable.
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TEDxSoweto salutes Lesley Perkes;
