Hidden gem exhibitions showcasing Black Art
Maxine Walker – Untitled
Where: Birmingham Midlands Centre
When: 24 May 2021 – 31 August 2021
Price: Free entry
Image: @autographabp
#FLODown: Maxine Walker’s works focused on representations of black womanhood, a poignant exploration of identity in all different shapes and sizes. Active between 1985 - 1997, Walker used photography to interrogate the intricacies of skin, blackness and being.
Location: Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham, B12 9QH
Karen McLean: BLUE POWER | Ar’n’t I a Woman!
Where: Block 336
When: 20th May – 12th June 2021 Thurs – Sat 11-5pm
Price: Free
Image: @block336
#FLODown: Originally from Trinidad artist Karen McLean brings together two years of work, which showcases her childhood growing up in the Caribbean in the 1960’s. McLean’s powerful sculptural work explores the symbolic and historical weight of materials and interrogates their relationship to Britain’s colonial legacy.
Location: 336 Brixton Road, London, SW9 7AA
An Ode to Afrosurrealism
Where: Horniman Museum & Gardens
When: Open daily until 19 September 2021 (except Wednesdays) 10am – 5:30pm
Price: Free
Image: Horniman Museum and Gardens
#FLODown: A photographic art display exploring contemporary relationships with spiritualism, reality and surrealism, through a Black British lens.
Location: 100 London Road, Forest Hill, London, SE23 3PQ
Alicia Henry : To Whom It May Concern
Where: Tiwani Contemporary
When: 27 May 2021 – 3 July 2021
Price: Free - Pre Booking required
Image: @tiwanicontemporary
#FLODown: Alicia Henry’s compositions show representations of unidentifiable individuals and groups of people based on a range of composite references including but not limited by her own memories, African masks, paper-dolls, European clowning traditions, American minstrelsy and everyday life and events.
Location: 16 Little Portland St, London W1W 8BP
A Picture of Health, Women Photographers from the Hyman Collection
Where: Arnolfini
When: 18 May – 13 June 2021, Tuesday to Sunday, 11am – 6pm
Price: Free
Image: Arnolfini
#FLODown: A Picture of Health is a group exhibition of eleven contemporary women photographers from The Hyman Collection who have responded to subjects of health and wellbeing.
Location: 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol, Greater Bristol, BS1 4QA
Words by Patrice Antwi