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List Of Black British Artists
This is a list of Black British artists, born in or associated with the UK, who are notable in visual arts as designers, painters, photographers and sculptors. {{compact ToC, side=yes, seealso=yes, nobreak=yes A * Faisal Abdu'Allah (born 1969) * Kesewa Aboah (born 1994) * Larry Achiampong (born 1984) * Brenda Agard (1961–2012) * Ajamu X (born 1963) * John Akomfrah (born 1957) * Pearl Alcock (1934–2006) * Hurvin Anderson (born 1965) * Eugene Ankomah (living) B * Chris Baker (born 1960) * Black Audio Film Collective * Hannah Black (living) * BLK Art Group * Frank Bowling (born 1934) * Sonia Boyce (born 1962) * Winston Branch (born 1947) * Vanley Burke (born 1951) C * Pogus Caesar (born 1953) * Sokari Douglas Camp (born 1958) * Eddie Chambers (born 1960) * Chinwe Chukwuogo-Roy (1952−2012) * Quilla Constance (living) D * Adelaide Damoah (living) * Paul Dash (born 1946) * Dels (living) * Godfried Donkor (born 1964) * Kimathi Donkor (born 1965) E * Uzo Egonu (1931–199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faisal Abdu'Allah
Faisal Abdu'Allah (born 1969 in London) is a British artist and barber. His work includes photography, screenprint and installations. Life and work Abdu'Allah was born Paul Duffus in 1969 and grew up in a Pentecostal family. He was educated at Willesden High School, Harrow School of Art, Central St Martins and the Royal College of Art. In 1991, Abdu'Allah converted to Islam and changed his name. The event was described in the BBC television documentary series ''The Day That Changed My Life'', and formed the subject of the artist's 1992 work ''Thalatha Haqq (Three Truths)''. He taught at the University of East London (UEL),, formerly North East London Polytechnic. He was a visiting professor at Stanford University and is a member of the Association of Black Photographers. In the spring of 2013, Abdu'Allah was an artist-in-residence at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arts Institute, and in the fall of 2014 he returned to Wisconsin, this time as an assistant professor in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pogus Caesar
Dr Pogus Caesar (born 1953) is a British photographer, conceptual artist, archivist, author, curator, television producer and director. He was born in St Kitts, West Indies, and grew up in Birmingham, England. Early life Dr Pogus Caesar was born on the Caribbean island of St Kitts and came to Britain at an early age and up in Birmingham. A self-taught artist, he took up painting seriously in his early 20s. Caesar developed his own technique by using simple pens and ink, composing his paintings with thousands of tiny dots. This minutely detailed use of a fountain pen meant that even the smaller works took several months to complete. Career During the early 1980s Caesar was appointed director of the West Midlands Minority Arts Service. He was also the first chairman of Birmingham International Film & Television Festival. For the Arts Council of Great Britain he curated with Lubaina Himid and contributed to exhibitions by Black artists, including ''Into the Open'' (1984) and ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Evans (artist)
Mary Evans (born 1963) is a contemporary artist who lives and works in England and utilises in her subject matter both her African heritage and European upbringing. Early life and education Evans was born in Lagos, Nigeria in 1963. After a foundation course at St Helens College of Art & Design (1981–82), she studied painting for her B.A. at Gloucestershire College of Arts and Technology (1982–85), and attained her M.A. in Fine Art at Goldsmiths' College (1987–89). She subsequently did a postgraduate residency at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam (1991–93). Career Evans has received a number of significant commissions, awards and residencies, including a Smithsonian Artists Research Fellowship, National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC, in 2010. She typically uses paper as her medium, producing large-scale, site-specific work — sometimes with reference to highly charged subjects, such as lynching in the Deep South. Her work has been exhibited extensively across th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kodwo Eshun
Kodwo Eshun (born 1967) is a British -Ghanaian writer, theorist and filmmaker. He is perhaps best known for his 1998 book ''More Brilliant than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction'' and his association with the art collective The Otolith Group. He currently teaches on the MA in Contemporary Art Theory in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and at CCC Research Master Program of the Visual Arts Department at HEAD (Geneva School of Art and Design). Early life and education Kodwo Eshun was born and raised in the far northern suburbs of London. His father was a prominent diplomat to the United Kingdom. His family is of the Fante people of Ghana, and his younger brother is the author and journalist Ekow Eshun. As a youth, Eshun undertook a study of comic books, J. G. Ballard, and rock music. According to his brother, Eshun was heavily disturbed and influenced by the 1979 coup of Ghana carried out by J. J. Rawlings. He studied Englis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Enwonwu
Odinigwe Benedict Chukwukadibia Enwonwu MBE (14 July 1917 – 5 February 1994), better known as Ben Enwonwu, was a Nigerian painter and sculptor. Arguably the most influential African artist of the 20th century, his pioneering career opened the way for the postcolonial proliferation and increased visibility of modern African art. He was one of the first African artists to win critical acclaim, having exhibited in august exhibition spaces in Europe and the United States and listed in international directories of contemporary art. Since 1950, Enwonwu was celebrated as "Africa's Greatest Artist" by the international media and his fame was used to enlist support for Black Nationalists movement all over the world. The Enwonwu crater on the planet Mercury is named in his honour. Biography Early life Ben Enwonwu was born a twin on 14 July 1917 into the noble family of Umueze-Aroli in Onitsha, Nigeria. His father, Omenka Odigwe Emeka Enwonwu, was a technician who worked with the Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uzo Egonu
Uzo Egonu (25 December 1931 – 14 August 1996) was a Nigerian-born artist who settled in Britain in the 1940s,"Uzo Egonu" Diaspora Artists. only once returning to his homeland for two days in the 1970s,Ulrich Clewing "Three hues for Piccadilly Circus" , Culturebase.net, 22 June 2003. although he remained concerned with African political struggles."Uzo Egonu, Artist" InIVA. According to |
Kimathi Donkor
Kimathi Donkor (born in 1965) is a London-based contemporary British artist of Ghanaian, Anglo-Jewish and Jamaican family heritage whose figurative paintings depict "African diasporic bodies and souls as sites of heroism and martydom, empowerment and fragility...myth and matter". According to art critic Coline Milliard, Donkor's works are ""genuine cornucopias of interwoven reference: to Western art, social and political events, and to the artist's own biography". Early life and education Donkor was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1965.Agnaldo Farias; Moacir dos Anjos; Adrian Piper; et al''29th Bienal de São Paulo catalogue: there is always a cup of sea to sail in'' São Paulo: Fundac̦ão Bienal de São Paulo, 2010. ; . He has said of his background: "I was born in the UK to an Anglo-Jewish mother and Ghanaian father, but was raised by my adopted parents who were from Jamaica and the UK. We lived for a time in Zambia, Central Africa, where my adopted dad worked as a vet. I fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Godfried Donkor
Godfried Donkor (born 1964) is a Ghanaian artist, living and working in London, who has exhibited in Cuba, Mexico, the US, Europe and Africa. He is known primarily for his work in collage, and has been described as similar to Keith Piper and Isaac Julien in his output. Some of his pieces depict boxers, such as Jack Johnson and Mohammad Ali. Donkor has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, both in the United States and in Europe, and was Ghana's representative to the 2001 Venice Biennale. His work is in the collection of the National Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian Institution. Introduction Godfried Donkor was born in Ghana in 1964, then moved to London, England, in 1973 when he was eight years old. Although known for his painting and collage work, Donkor's original intention as an artist, from the age of 14, was to be a fashion designer. It was only at the urging of his teachers to try a different medium that he purchased some paint and brushes and be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dels
Kieren Gallear also known as DELS (pronounced "Dels") is a British art director, recording artist, rapper, graphics designer and filmmaker born in Ipswich, England, currently based in London. Gallear signed with the Ninja Tune imprint Big Dada in May 2010. ''GOB'' (2011) DELS has released three singles, "Shapeshift", "Trumpalump" (produced by Hot Chip's Joe Goddard) and "GOB" (produced by Kwes), in 2010 and 2011. His debut album ''Gob (Dels album), GOB'' (2011) was produced by Kwes, with Micachu engineering two tracks and Joe Goddard three tracks. DELS met all three producers via Myspace when the social networking site was at its peak of popularity. Critical acclaim DELS was described as the "Future of UK Hip Hop" by British national newspaper ''The Times'' in their "Ones to Watch 2011" list in January 2011. Paul Lester of ''The Guardian'' has complimented Dickins for his ability to set himself apart from many homogeneous hip-hop artists by sounding both languid and urgent. Le ... [...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] |
Adelaide Damoah
Adelaide Damoah RWA FRSA (born ) is a British painter and performance artist of Ghanaian descent who uses her body as the starting point for much of her work. Themes of particular interest include feminism, colonialism, religion and spirituality. Damoah's debut exhibition entitled "Black Brits," took place in 2006 in Charlie Allen's Boutique, Islington, London, UK and received some media attention. It was featured on BBC News, Channel 5 News and other regional and local media outlets in the UK. Damoah's solo exhibitions to date also include Genesis, This is Us, Supermodels, Black Lipstick, and a domestic violence exhibition for the National Centre for Domestic Violence. Performances to date include This is Me the Inconsistency of the Self, My Body is Present, Homage to Ana Mendieta and #MYFACE. Education Damoah studied Applied Biology at Kingston University in South West London, England graduating with honours in 1999.River Newspaper February 2006 http://www.damoaharts.com/p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quilla Constance
Jennifer Allen, known professionally as Quilla Constance, is a British contemporary interdisciplinary artist and lecturer, born in Birmingham, 1980. Education Allen graduated from the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art , St John's College, University of Oxford, with a BA (Hons) Fine Art in 2001 and earned an MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2006. She later studied acting at Rose Bruford College Persona and style Shortly after completing her master's degree, Allen created her Quilla Constance persona as an extension of the exoticised, androgynous punk-carnival aesthetic and malevolent demeanour explored in her earlier video and performance works and "to locate a point of agency within a hegemonic framework of white phallocentric order". Constance subsequently began staging performances in clubs, theatres, art galleries, music venues, the street and mainstream television. Quilla Constance (abbreviated to QC) stages interventions across an interdisciplinary prac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
