''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 Theater, 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 ...
in London, featuring the work of fifteen artists announcing themselves as Black Women.
The exhibition, curated by
Lubaina Himid
Lubaina Himid (born 1954) is a British artist and curator. She is a professor of contemporary art at the University of Central Lancashire. was funded by the GLC. The participating artists were Ingrid Pollard,
Veronica Ryan
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Claudette Johnson
Claudette Elaine Johnson (born 1959) is a British visual artist. She is known for her large-scale drawings of Black women and her involvement with the BLK Art Group, of which she was a founder member. She was described by Modern Art Oxford as ...
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Sonia Boyce
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Houria Niati
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Brenda Agard
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Africa Centre
The Africa Centre, based in Cape Town, South Africa, is structured as a not-for-profit organisation whose purpose is to provide a platform for Pan-African arts and cultural practice to function as a catalyst for social change. All the projects ...