Tate British Art Network Black Art in Britain Sub Group

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Description

Co-organiser of the second workshop of the Tate British Art network sub group on Black British art led by Dorothy Price and Helen Legg, with Elizabeth Robles. Speakers included: David A Bailey and Jessica Taylor (co-curators of the Diaspora Pavilion, Venice; Libita Clayton (participating artist, Diaspora Pavilion) and Nina Edge (Liverpool based public artist)

Period	16 May 2018
Event type	Conference
Location	Bristol, United Kingdom
Degree of Recognition	National

Keywords

Diaspora Pavilion
Venice Biennale
David A Bailey
Jessica Taylor
Libita Clayton
Nina Edge
Spike Island
Tate Britain

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The University of Bristol and Spike Island (Bristol) in conjunction with Modern Art Oxford and Nottingham Contemporary, have established a British Art sub-group to focus on the area of Black British Art since 1945. The group responds to, and supports, networking and audience engagement around a series of recent and ongoing exhibitions that explored key figures and moments in the development of ‘black art’ in Britain. These include the series of exhibitions that took place in early 2017 across Spike Island and Modern Art Oxford to explore the practice of Lubaina Himid and a wider ranging exhibition on the Black Arts Movement of the 1980s that began at Nottingham Contemporary before moving on to the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art. The Black British Art network organised the first one day networking event at Tate Britain in September 2017 in order to discuss the relationship between exhibitions, collections, and audiences in the context of ‘black art’ in Britain. A second event will follow in Spring 2018 in Bristol. CONTACT INFORMATION The group is led by Dr Dorothy Price (University of Bristol) and Helen Legg (Director, Spike Island). If you are interested in joining the group please contact Dr Elizabeth Robles (University of Bristol) haekr@bristol.ac.uk