FEATURED ARTIST - Maïmouna Guerresi
Lina iris viktor
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Like an Afrofuturist love story, Iris Viktor's images hit you with bold colours, textures and an otherworldliness that can't help but draw your mind to the cosmos and beyond. Her art has parallels with religious iconography, where gold and a central figure have you making comparisons to Catholic images of the Madonna, but they are so much more than this, they take you to new solar systems, planets and worlds that exist in the spiritual and subconscious planes. Click on the link to learn more and visit the artists website |
pHOEBE BOSWELL - VISUAL ARTIST
"Phoebe Boswell (b. 1982, Kenya) lives and works in London. Born in Nairobi to a Kikuyu mother and fourth generation British Kenyan father, and brought up as an expatriate in the Middle East, she combines traditional draftswomanship and digital technology to create drawings, animations and installations."
Eva Langret. Curator, Tiwani Gallery, London
Eva Langret. Curator, Tiwani Gallery, London
"I HAVE ALWAYS HAD A FRAGILE UNDERSTANDING OF THE DEFINITION OF 'HOME'."
Mutumia 2016 |
THE LIZARDS WITHIN US |
MATATIZO |
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Click on the link to learn more about Phoebe Boswell and to view more of her artworks
LEGALLY BLACK
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Tired of the lack of representation in the media a group of young black artists created a series of media images with the, usually white, characters replaced with black models. The project was nurtured through the activism group, 'The Advocacy Academy', and initially were intended for the bedroom walls of the creators, but were seized upon by the subversive advertising organisation 'Special Patrol Group' who put the posters up in prominent places in and around Brixton.
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Photograph: LegallyBlackUK
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Jaleel Campbell - artist and graphic designer
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Geometric, rich in colour and highly stylised, Jaleel Campbell's art reminds me of a mixture of Russian Communist propaganda art, 1920's art deco and Picasso's cubist style all combined to create some mesmerising and beautiful images.
You can purchase prints of the original canvas through his website and they are pretty affordable. Click on 'Learn More' to visit his website and see more of his artwork. |
KENZO's Celebration of Nigerian Youth
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The fashion house, KENZO, has teamed up with director Akinola Davies, aka Crack Stevens and photographer Ruth Ossai to produce and exciting and colourful fashion film exploring what it means to be young and fashionable in Nigeria.
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Photographer Ruth Ossai
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Children's illustrators to Inspire and Amaze you
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Kolor Collective |
Woman Made Gallery |
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Kolor Collective are Rio de Janeiro's afro-feminist fantasists, taking aim at the hyper-sexualisation and invisibility of Brazil's Black Women. With a vivid pop art style, mixed with fetish images, the photo series hits you like a sexy graphic novel. To me it is an expose of the function of Black Women in Brazil's society, the dichotomy of a sex object that is also a caretaker for the children of the elite. The characters in photo occupy a space of exaggerated hyper-sexuality, as well as an absurdity which screams at the bizarre denial in Brazil that there is no racism, and black women have an equal footing with their lighter countrymen.
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The depiction of the black female body in the media has always been a source of discomfort to me. From the image of the black mammy, large, slow but full of sweet saccharine goodness for the benefit of the delicate white women and her children, to the predatory sexual mulatto woman, wanton, deceitful in need of moral correction. These narratives have persisted and evolved into the 'video girl' and the 'caretaker nurse' or reception worker doling out sass and advice to her white colleagues, both are problematic tropes that feature in some way when black women are depicted in fiction, and more troubling, within the news media, as time and time again we see the abuse of black female bodies, slammed, threatened and mistreated as 'moral' figures seek to keep them in line.
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Royal Dog 심찬양 |
Virginia Chihota
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Bekke Popoola |
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Korean graffiti artist Royal Dog 심찬양 shows his love of black women with a series of murals highlighting their elegance, grace and badassery!
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A mixed media artist, she moved to Tripoli, Libya in 2012 where the cultural isolation and disconnection have influenced her works.
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Michelle Robinson
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Nona Faustine |
Meliyart Graphik |
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LA based self taught artist Michelle Robinson explores the female form and her mixed cultural identity
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The Photographs are taken from her series "White Shoes"
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"Getting dressed in a grotesque way is a role play," she said. Her experience in fashion allowed her to develop her "eye" as well as her aesthetics and values too."
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