Black and minority ethnic artists are being excluded from modern art history, says Sonia Boyce. She talks to Laura Robertson about her research project that is hoping to put them on Britain’s cultural map.
There is gaping, screaming hole in our modern art history. You may not have noticed – it may never have occurred to you – but thousands of British artists have been excluded from books, exhibitions, television documentaries and the curriculum. They’re ghosts in the system. Why? Because their skin is not white.
The artist Sonia Boyce, MBE, is hoping to reverse this exclusion. She is six months into a three-year, AHRC‐funded research project, Black Artists and Modernism (BAM), which aims to excavate the practices of artists of African and Asian-descent and put them on Britain’s cultural map. “There are some remarkable stories to be discovered,” she says. “We’re trying to see where the art is, what’s the art telling us?”
We meet to discuss this undertaking at Liverpool’s Bluecoat gallery, where Boyce is presenting BAM’s first scheduled public symposium, The Work Between Us: Black British Artists and Exhibition Histories... Keep reading on a-n
There is gaping, screaming hole in our modern art history. You may not have noticed – it may never have occurred to you – but thousands of British artists have been excluded from books, exhibitions, television documentaries and the curriculum. They’re ghosts in the system. Why? Because their skin is not white.
The artist Sonia Boyce, MBE, is hoping to reverse this exclusion. She is six months into a three-year, AHRC‐funded research project, Black Artists and Modernism (BAM), which aims to excavate the practices of artists of African and Asian-descent and put them on Britain’s cultural map. “There are some remarkable stories to be discovered,” she says. “We’re trying to see where the art is, what’s the art telling us?”
We meet to discuss this undertaking at Liverpool’s Bluecoat gallery, where Boyce is presenting BAM’s first scheduled public symposium, The Work Between Us: Black British Artists and Exhibition Histories... Keep reading on a-n