Arts and Culture

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…

Lawrence gained national recognition with his sixty panel Migration Series, painted on cardboard. The series depicted the Great Migration of African Americans from the rural…

James was born in Lenox Massachusetts, a rural town known as a summer resort for wealthy families. The Van Der Zees were one of the…

A painter’s daughter, Walker was born into a family of academics in Stockton, California in 1969 and wanted to be an artist from the age…

Keith Piper is a leading contemporary British artist, curator, critic and academic.

Lubaina Himid CBERA (born 1954) is a British artist and curator. She is a Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of Central Lancashire. Her…

Yiadom-Boakye works with oil paint on canvas or coarse linen. Ideas for her paintings are prompted by a variety of observations – a colour, a…

Sam Gilliam is an African American colour field painter and lyrical abstractionist artist. Gilliam is associated with the Washington Colour School, a group of Washington…

Sonia Dawn Boyce (born 1962) is a British AfroCaribbean artist, living and working in London. She is Professor of Black Art and Design at University…