Kevin Weaver was a former photojournalist whose artistic practice explores physical and internal conflicts. While his works are bold, bright and energetic they explore a relatively peaceful and cathartic environment, a response to the last landscape where he lived and worked. 

For several years during the 1990s, Kevin Weaver worked as a freelance journalist for UK broadsheets, magazines and BBC Radio. As a teenager, Kevin Weaver InterRailed through, what is now, the former Yugoslavia. While freelancing for the Guardian newspaper during the Bosnian war, reflecting on his wonderful InterRail experience, and perhaps because Yugoslavia was so close to home, he became terribly distressed by what he witnessed. Nonetheless, despite being the first journalist to be medevacked by the UN out of Sarajevo, after being shot in the leg alongside a colleague who subsequently lost his leg, he felt compelled to returned to Bosnia.  Kevin Weaver covered the war until it ended in 1995. After marrying a Bosnian nurse, he remained in Bosnia and covered the fallout from the war: the exhumation of mass graves, the DNA identification project for missing persons (ICMP) and the War Crimes trials in The Hague.

From 2000 onward, still reeling from his experiences and diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Kevin Weaver began to write, make sculptures and paintings in oil. The resulting body of work is a cathartic exercise, but it was after seeing photojournalist Tim Hetherington’s (1970-2011) exhibition [1] at Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool that he began to seriously consider a courageous retrospective of his own work to bring the plight of many