Arts and Culture

Alma Thomas

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

Aubrey Williams

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

Augusta Savage

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…

Chris Ofili

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 Johnson MBE

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 Rodney

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…

Edmonia Lewis Wildfire

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

Eugene Palmer

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…

Frank Bowling OBE RA (Sir)

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…

Gordon Parks

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…
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