
From the a-n archive: Lubaina Himid, A memorial to Zong, February 1994
Lubaina Himid on the under-representation of Black artists in the field of public art.
Lubaina Himid on the under-representation of Black artists in the field of public art.
Sotiris Kyriacou on a showcase of new British talent at the Venice Biennale including the work of Jane and Louise Wilson.
Judith Palmer on why practitioners including Franko B are working with seemingly painful forms of expression, pushing performance to extremes.
Download and print Martina Mullaney’s poster artwork. Presented alongside the publication of Artists Newsletter #2: The 1990s.
Cover image by pressure group Fanny Adams which campaigned in the early 1990s to expose inequality and discrimination in the art world.
Download and print Nicola Singh’s poster artwork. Presented alongside the publication of Artists Newsletter #2: The 1990s.
Sources: PEOPLE’S GRAPHIC DESIGN ARCHIVE https://www.peoplesgdarchive.org/ Women’s Fantasies and Feminist Utopias https://archive.org/details/womanonedgeoftim0000unse/mode/2up Emma Goldman https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2162/2162-h/2162-h.htm#emancipation Super Sisters https://www.notion.so/Collecting-Inspiration-with-Supersisters-5cc127303afa497a83610bad37ce5f7b WIKIMEDIA Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ayesha_Al-Taymuriyya_cropped.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Babilina_khositashvili.jpg
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