Black Women Time Now
Black Women Time Now was a 1983 art exhibition at the Battersea Arts Centre in London, featuring the work of fifteen artists announcing themselves as Black Women.[1]
The exhibition, curated by Lubaina Himid,[1] was funded by the GLC. The participating artists were Ingrid Pollard, Veronica Ryan, Claudette Johnson, Sonia Boyce, Lubaina Himid, Chila Burman, , Houria Niati, , , , , , and Brenda Agard.[2] A programme of theatre, film, music, poetry and dance accompanied the visual art exhibition.[1]
Black Women can be seen as an "active community of artists".[1] Himid had earlier curated the work of several of the same artists at 5 Black Women, a smaller exhibition at the Africa Centre.[3]
References[]
- ^ a b c d Niru Ratnam (2002). "Black Women Time Now". In Alison Donnell (ed.). Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture. Routledge. p. 127. ISBN 978-1-134-70024-0. Archived from the original on 2021-02-22. Retrieved 2020-11-24.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Monique Kerman (2017). Contemporary British Artists of African Descent and the Unburdening of a Generation. Springer International Publishing. p. 194. ISBN 978-3-319-65199-6. Archived from the original on 2021-02-22. Retrieved 2020-11-24.
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