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No Colour Bar
''No Colour Bar: Black British Art in Action 1960–1990'' was a major public art and archives exhibition, the first of its kind in the UK, held at the Guildhall Art Gallery, City of London, over a six-month period (10 July 2015 – 24 January 2016),"Activism and Art" FHALMA website. with a future digital touring exhibition, and an associated programme of events. ''No Colour Bar'' took its impetus from the life work and archives of (23 February 1927 – 13 October 2013) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guildhall Art Gallery
The Guildhall Art Gallery houses the art collection of the City of London, England. The museum is located in the Moorgate area of the City of London. It is a stone building in a semi-Gothic style intended to be sympathetic to the historic Guildhall, which is adjacent and to which it is connected internally. History The City of London Corporation had commissioned and collected portraits since 1670, originally to hang in the Guildhall. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the Corporation's art collections grew through gifts and bequests to include history paintings and other genres of art. The first purpose-built gallery for displaying the collection was completed in . This building was destroyed in The Blitz in 1941, resulting in the loss of 164 paintings, drawings, watercolours, and prints, and 20 sculptures. It was not until 1985 that the City of London Corporation decided to redevelop the site and build a new gallery. The building was designed in a postmodern style by the Britis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddie Chambers (artist)
Eddie Chambers (born 1960)Axisweb online contributors . is a British contemporary art historian, curator, artist and Department of Art and Art History professor at the ."Dr. Eddie Chambers" People – Department of Art & Art History, College of Fine Arts, The University of Texas at Austin. Artistic career Chambers was born in , |
Michael McMillan
Michael McMillan (born 1962) is a British playwright, artist, curator and educator, born in England to parents who were migrants from St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG)."Artists: Michael McMillan" Peckham Platform. As an academic, he focuses his research on "the creative process, ethnography, oral histories, material culture and performativity". He is the author of several plays, and as an artist his first installation, ''The West Indian Front Room'', was exhibited at the in 2005, going on to inspire a 2007 documentary ''Tales from t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah White (New Beacon Books)
New Beacon Books is a British publishing house, bookshop, and international book service that specializes in Black British, Caribbean, African, African-American and Asian literature. Founded in 1966 by John La Rose and Sarah White, it was the first Caribbean publishing house in England. New Beacon Books is widely recognized as having played an important role in the Caribbean Artists Movement, and in Black British culture more generally. The associated George Padmore Institute (GPI) is located on the upper floors of the same building where the bookshop resides at 76 Stroud Green Road, Finsbury Park, London. History New Beacon Books started out as a publishing house that was run out of the Hornsey, North London, flat of John La Rose and Sarah White. It was named after the Trinidadian journal '' The Beacon'', which was published between 1931 and 1932. In 1967, La Rose and White moved New Beacon Books to new premises, in Finsbury Park, where the company also began to function ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arif Ali (publisher)
Arif Ali (born 13 March 1935)Asher & Martin Hoyles, ''Caribbean Publishing in Britain: A Tribute to Arif Ali'', Hansib Publications (2011), 2015, p. 97. is a Guyanese-born publisher and newspaper proprietor who migrated to London in 1957. The company he founded in 1970, Hansib, was among pioneering publishers in the UK that disseminated publications of relevance to Britain's black community, others being New Beacon Books (1966) and Bogle-L'Ouverture (1968)."A lifetime in publishing: Arif Ali and the Hansib story" '''', 3 September 2008. Hansib went on to become the largest black publisher in Europe. Biography< ...
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Dorothea Smartt
Dorothea Smartt FRSL (born 1963) is an English-born poet of Barbadian descent. Biography The daughter of Caribbean immigrants from Barbados, Dorothea Smartt was born in London, England, and grew up there. She earned a BA degree in Social Sciences from South Bank Polytechnic and an MA in Anthropology from Hunter College ( CUNY). Smartt was poet in residence at Brixton Market and attached live artist at the Institute of Contemporary Arts. She has lectured on creative arts at Birkbeck College, University of London, and Leeds University. She has been poetry editor for ''Sable LitMag'' and guest writer at Florida International University and Oberlin College. Her work has appeared in various literary journals and anthologies, including ''Bittersweet'' (Women's Press, 1998), ''The Fire People'' (Payback Press, 1998), ''Mythic Women/Real Women'' ( Faber, 2000), ''IC3: The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain'' (edited by Kadija George and Courttia Newland, 2000), ''A Stor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kadija George
Kadija George , Hon. FRSL (born 1962), also known as Kadija Sesay, is a British literary activist, short story writer and poet of Sierra Leonean descent, and the publisher and managing editing, editor of the magazine ''SABLE LitMag''. Her work has earned her many awards and nominations, including the ''Cosmopolitan'' Woman of Achievement in 1994, Candace Woman of Achievement in 1996, ''The Voice'' Community Award in Literature in 1999 and the Millennium Woman of the Year in 2000. She is the General Secretary for African Writers Abroad (PEN) and organises the Writers' HotSpot - trips for writers abroad, where she teaches creative writing and journalism courses. Biography Born in London of Sierra Leonean heritage, Sesay is a graduate of Birmingham University, in England, where she majored in West African studies."Kadija George" at < ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Hinds
Donald Hinds (born in 1934) is a Jamaican-born writer, journalist, historian and teacher. He is best known for his work on the '' West Indian Gazette'' and his fiction and non-fiction books portraying the West Indian community in Britain, particularly his 1966 work ''Journey to an Illusion'', which has been called a groundbreaking book that "captured the plight of Commonwealth immigrants and foresaw the multicultural London of today". Biography Hinds was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1934 and grew up in a village in the parish of St. Thomas with his grandparents, his mother and stepfather having migrated to Britain. In 1955, aged 21, he decided to travel to London, England, to join his mother. He had qualified as a probationary teacher in Jamaica but like many other West Indian migrants to the UK was unable to find employment that matched his qualifications. He eventually got a job with London Transport as a bus conductor, working out of Brixton Bus Garage in Streatham Hill. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Dash
Paul Dash (born 1946) is a Barbados-born artist, educator and writer who in 1957 migrated to United Kingdom, Britain,Paul O'Kane"Dash, Paul" in Alison Donnell, ''Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture'', Routledge, 2002, p. 93. where he was associated with the 1960s Caribbean Artists Movement (CAM), taking part in their meetings and exhibitions. Describing the subject matter of his paintings, Dash has said: "The key themes in my work are street festivals and carnival (mas). It is partly in these popular art forms that African diasporic communities throughout the Americas and elsewhere maintain continuity with African traditions. My identity as an artist is fixed in the fun and spectacle, and ultimately the social and political resistance of mas." His pedagogical writing has been particularly concerned with multicultural and anti-racist art education. Biography Paul Dash was born in Bridgetown, Barbados, and migrated to Britain at the age of 11, joining his family in Oxfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fowokan
George "Fowokan" Kelly (born 1 April 1943) is a Jamaican-born visual artist who lives in United Kingdom, Britain and exhibits using the name "Fowokan" (a Yoruba language, Yoruba word meaning: "one who creates with the hand"). He is a largely self-taught artist, who has been practising sculpture since 1980. His work is full of the ambivalence he sees in the deep-rooted spiritual and mental conflict between the African and the European. Fowokan's work is rooted in the traditions of pre-colonial Africa and ancient Egypt rather than the Greco-Roman art of the west. He has also been a jeweller, essayist, poet and musician (a former member of the funk group Cymande in the early 1970s). Background and career Born as Kenness George Kelly in Kingston, Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica, he migrated to Britain in 1957 and lived in Brixton, South London.Margaret T. Andrews"Fowokan" in Alison Donnell (ed.), ''Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture'', Routledge, 2001, p. 117. He decided to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmanuel Taiwo Jegede
Emmanuel Taiwo Jegede (born June 1943)"Emmanuel Taiwo Jegede, The Prayer for Peace, bronze" . is a poet, storyteller, painter, printmaker and a sculptor (in wood, bronze and ceramic)."Profile: Emmanuel Taiwo Jegede (Nigeria)" [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chila Kumari Burman
Chila Kumari Singh Burman (Punjabi: ਚਿਲਾ ਕੁਮਾਰੀ ਬਰਮਨ) is a British artist, celebrated for her radical feminist practice, which examines representation, gender and cultural identity. She works across a wide range of mediums including printmaking, drawing, painting, installation and film. A significant figure in the Black British Art movement of the 1980s, Burman remains one of the first British Asian female artists to have a monograph written about her work; Lynda Nead's ''Chila Kumari Burman: Beyond Two Cultures'' (1995). In 2018, she received an honorary doctorate from University of the Arts London for her impact and recognised legacy as an international artist. In 2020 she was invited into the Art Workers' Guild as a Brother and in 2022, Burman was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the Queen's Birthday Honours for services to visual art. Early life Born in Bootle, near Liverpool, England, to Hindu Punjabi parents ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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