Sonia Boyce is a British
Afro-Caribbean artist; she is an important figure in the burgeoning black
British art-scene of that time.
She works with her identity
differences and black culture, using diverse methods like photography,
installation and text, her works talk about racial identity and gender in
Britain. She was inspirited by the work
of Margaret Harrison from Phoenix – the Feminist Art Collective and National
Convention of Black Artists at Wolverhampton College of Art in 1982
In the 1980s she used to show her
work through drawing using large chalk-and-pastel drawings and talk about
personal experience of her family and friends but has since diversified into
photography, mixed media and installation and in more recent years seem like
Boyce is returning to drawing again.
Sonia Boyce likes the use of
wallpaper patterns and bright colours which are associated with the Caribbean,
she likes to used her own personal background and talk of how is to be a black
woman in Britain, about the stereotypes in the media and daily life.
Quotations
‘Traveloque’
The Whitworth
Art Gallery (2002)
I am just discovering this artist and very impressed with her as a black woman and an established artist in two cultures.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations to Ms. Boyce on her accomplishments and all of her future endeavors!
Peace and Blessings,
L. Shields