''Black Women Time Now'' was a 1983 art exhibition at the
Battersea Arts Centre
The Battersea Arts Centre ("BAC") is a performance space specialising in theatre productions. Located near Clapham Junction railway station in Battersea, in the London Borough of Wandsworth, it was formerly Battersea Town Hall. It is a Grade ...
in London, featuring the work of fifteen artists announcing themselves as Black Women.
The exhibition, curated by
Lubaina Himid,
was funded by the
GLC. The participating artists were
Ingrid Pollard,
Veronica Ryan,
Claudette Johnson,
Sonia Boyce, Lubaina Himid,
Chila Burman,
Mumtaz Karimjee,
Houria Niati
Houria Niati (born 1948) is an Algerian contemporary artist living in London. Niati specializes in mixed media installations that criticize Western representations and objectification of north African and Middle Eastern women. Her installations ...
,
Jean Campbell,
Andrea Telman,
Margaret Cooper,
Elizabeth Eugene,
Leslee Wills,
Cherry Lawrence and
Brenda Agard.
[Hazel A.Atashroo]
Beyond The ‘Campaign for a Popular Culture’: Community Art, Activism and Cultural Democracy in 1980s London
PhD thesis, Southampton, 2017, p.218. A programme of theatre, film, music, poetry and dance accompanied the visual art exhibition.
Black Women can be seen as an "active community of artists".
Himid had earlier curated the work of several of the same artists at ''
5 Black Women'', a smaller exhibition at the
Africa Centre.
References
1983 in art
Art exhibitions in London
Black British culture
Black feminism
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