Arts and Culture

Alma Thomas was a pioneering abstract artist who dared make her way in a white, male dominated abstract art world

Aubrey Williams (1926 Guyana – 1990 London), is a key figure of PostWar painting in Britain.

In 1939, the artist Augusta Savage was the first African American woman to open her own art gallery in America, the Salon of Contemporary Negro…

Christopher Ofili is the first Black British artist to receive the prestigious Turner Prize. He was also one of the Young British Artists (YBAs), a…

Claudette Elaine Johnson MBE (born 1959) is a British visual artist. She is known for her large scale drawings of Black women and for her…

Donald Gladstone Rodney was a British artist. He was a leading figure in Britain’s BLK Art Group of the 1980s and became recognised as one…

Mary Edmonia Lewis, Wildfire was an American sculptor of mixed African American and Native American (Mississauga Ojibwe) heritage.

In the early 1990s, Palmer turned certain art and social conventions on their head, embarking on what art historian Eddie Chambers described as “the employment…

Bowling was elected a member of England’s Royal Academy of Arts. He was among about a dozen artists proposed to fill one of two vacancies…

Parks was born in Fort Scott, Kansas, the son of a farmer, Andrew Jackson Parks and Sarah Rosson 30 November 1912, the youngest of 15…

Pippin painted about 140 works, many of which are in museum collections These include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture…

Hurvin Anderson (b 1965) creates vibrant paintings that draw on the genres of still life, landscape and portraiture to explore the way community and identity…