Art and Design The Place Welcome to The Place is Here online educational resource. This website is designed to support learning and conversations around race, politics, activism, and the arts in the context of British history and The Black Arts Movement. https://theplaceishere.org Syed Haider Raza Born: February 22, 1922; Babaria, India Nationality: French, Indian Art Movement: Art Informel Genre: abstract Field: painting https://www.wikiart.org/en/s-h-raza Yinka Shonibare Yinka Shonibare CBE, RA is a British-Nigerian artist living in the United Kingdom. His work explores cultural identity, colonialism and post-colonialism within the contemporary context of globalisation. A hallmark of his art is the brightly coloured Dutch wax fabric he uses. https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/name/yinka-shonibare-ra Sokari Douglas Camp Sokari Douglas Camp CBE is a London-based artist who has had exhibitions all over the world and was the recipient of a bursary from the Henry Moore Foundation. She was honoured as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2005 Birthday Honours list. Born: 1958 (age 62 years), Buguma, Nigeria Education: California College of the Arts Known for: Steel sculpture Books: Sweeping: Sculpture by Sokari Douglas Camp, Knots of the Human Heart: Sculpture https://sokari.co.uk/ The Singh Twins The Singh Twins are contemporary British artists of international standing whose award-winning paintings have been acknowledged as constituting a unique genre in British Art and for initiating a new movement in the revival of the Indian miniature tradition within modern art practice – something which, in 2010, was officially recognized at the highest level of British Establishment when they each received an MBE from the Queen “for Services to the Indian Miniature Tradition of Painting in Contemporary Art”. https://www.singhtwins.co.uk https://www.christies.com/features/The-Singh-Twins-Studio-Visit-7344-3.aspx Chakaia Booker An internationally renowned and widely collected American sculptor known for creating monumental, abstract works from recycled tires and stainless steel for both the gallery and outdoor public spaces. Booker’s works are contained in more than 40 public collections and have been exhibited across the US, in Europe, Africa, and Asia. https://nmwa.org/art/artists/chakaia-booker/ Faith Ringgold Faith Ringgold is a painter, writer, mixed media sculptor and performance artist, best known for her narrative quilts. Wikipedia Born: 8 October 1930 (age 89 years), Harlem, New York, United States Artworks: Tar Beach (Part I from the Woman on a Bridge series), MORE On view: Baltimore Museum of Art, MORE Known for: Painting; Textile arts; Children's Books https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/faith-ringgold/ Yayoi Kusama Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese contemporary artist who works primarily in sculpture and installation, but is also active in painting, performance, film, fashion, poetry, fiction, and other arts. http://www.artnet.com/artists/yayoi-kusama/ Elizabeth Catlett Elizabeth Catlett was an American and Mexican graphic artist and sculptor best known for her depictions of the African-American experience in the 20th century, http://www.artnet.com/artists/elizabeth-catlett/ Amrita Sher Gil Amrita Sher-Gil was a Hungarian-Indian painter. She has been called "one of the greatest avant- garde women artists of the early 20th century" and a "pioneer" in modern Indian art. Drawn to painting from an early age, Sher-Gil started getting formal lessons in the art, at the age of eight. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/obituaries/amrita-shergil-dead.html Frida Kahlo Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. Inspired by the country's popular culture, she employed a naïve folk art style to explore questions of identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, and race in Mexican society. https://www.biography.com/artist/frida-kahlo Harriet Powers Harriet Powers was an American folk artist, and quilt maker. She was born into slavery in rural Georgia. She used traditional appliqué techniques to record local legends, Bible stories, and astronomical events on her quilts. Only two of her quilts are known to have survived: Bible Quilt 1886 and Pictorial Quilt 1898. https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_556462 Chris Ofili Christopher Ofili, CBE is a British Turner Prize-winning painter who is best known for his paintings incorporating elephant dung. He was one of the Young British Artists. Since 2005, Ofili has been living and working in Trinidad and Tobago, where he currently resides in Port of Spain. http://www.artnet.com/artists/chris-ofili/ Nnenna Okore Nnenna Okore is an artist who works both in Nigeria and the United States. Her largely abstract sculptures are inspired by textures, colours and forms within her immediate milieu. https://www.artsy.net/artist/nnenna-okore Beatriz Milhazes Beatriz Milhazes is a Brazilian artist. She is known for her work juxtaposing Brazilian cultural imagery and references to western Modernist painting. http://www.artnet.com/artists/beatriz-milhazes/ Larry Chiampong Achiampong (b. 1984, UK) is a Jarman Award nominated artist (2018). He completed a BA in Mixed Media Fine Art at University of Westminster in 2005 and an MA in Sculpture at The Slade School of Fine Art in 2008. He lives and works in Essex, and has been a tutor on the Photography MA programme at Royal College of Art since 2016. Achiampong currently serves on the Board of Trustees at Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) and is represented by C Ø P P E R F I E L D. https://www.larryachiampong.co.uk/list-of-artworks/sundays-best https://vimeo.com/180301736 Sutapa Biswas Sutapa Biswas is a British Indian conceptual artist, who works across a range of media including painting, drawing, film and time-based media. https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/b/biswas-sutapa/ Hugh Hayden Hugh Hayden’s practice considers the anthropomorphization of the natural world as a visceral lens for exploring the human condition. Hayden transforms familiar objects through a process of selection, carving and juxtaposition to challenge our perceptions of ourselves, others and the environment. Raised in Texas and trained as an architect, his work arises from a deep connection to nature and its organic materials. Hayden utilizes wood as his primary medium, frequently loaded with multi-layered histories in their origin, including objects as varied as discarded trunks, rare indigenous timbers, Christmas trees or souvenir African sculptures. From these he saws, sculpts and sands the wood, often combining disparate species, creating new composite forms that also reflect their complex cultural backgrounds. https://www.lissongallery.com/artists/hugh-hayden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBhMvSzXdbY Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa is a photographer, writer, and editor of The Great Leap Sideways. He has a BA in Philosophy & French from Oxford University, UK and an MFA in Photography from Virginia Commonwealth University. He has contributed essays to catalogues and monographs by Vanessa Winship, George Georgiou, and Paul Graham. His photographic work addresses questions of patriarchy, race, history, and identity. https://americansuburbx.com/2019/02/one-wall-a-web-an-interview-with-stanley-wolukau- wanambwa.html https://vimeo.com/186417353 Amy Sherald Amy Sherald is an American painter based in Baltimore, Maryland. She is best known for her portrait paintings. Her choices of subjects look to enlarge the genre of American art historical realism by telling African-American stories within their own tradition. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPQSKQ7Rnyo David Medalla David Medalla is a Filipino international artist. His work ranges from sculpture and kinetic art to painting, installation and performance art. He lives and works in Manila and Berlin. Medalla was born in Manila, the Philippines, in 1942. https://hepworthwakefield.org/artist/david-medalla/ Frank Bowling Richard Sheridan Franklin Bowling OBE RA, known as Frank Bowling, is a Guyana-born British artist. His paintings relate to Abstract expressionism, Color Field painting and Lyrical Abstraction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD5Ft2t7QBI Helen Cammock Known for: Film, Image, Photography, Writing, Poetry, Spoken word, Song, Performance, Printmaking, Installation art. https://vimeo.com/371103846 Donald Rodney Born in 1961 in Birmingham, UK, Donald Rodney first achieved visibility as part of The Blk Art Group in the early 1980s. During that decade, he went on to become a key figure within the broad alliance of artists, which came to be known as The Black Art Movement. Rodney illustrated his versatility utilizing a range of mediums from painting, installation and photography to robotics, film and digital yet often defying simple categorisation, both thematically and through the innovative approach to materials and technical processes. He chose to incorporate his medical condition of sickle cell anemia, an illness he had been living with his whole life. He used this as a metaphor for black emasculation, racial stereotyping and wider socio-political concerns in contemporary society. On March 1998, Rodney died from sickle-cell anemia, aged 36. His artistic career had spanned two decades and produced some of the most engaging and innovative work by a British artist of his generation. https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/donald-rodney-3076 Lynette Yiadom-Boakye