We're celebrating Black History Month by highlighting a book a day from the library.
Del Barrett1st October 2024
Black Heroines
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As part of Arts Diverse-City Black History Month celebrations, we’re hosting a screening of the highly acclaimed film Queen and Slim, directed by award-winning Melina Matsoukas, at the Heroines Quarter in the Eastgate.
PlanetHeroines13th October 2022
In celebration of Black History Month (October 2022), we want to highlight the work of Black Women Photographers. Check out the profiles of our Black Heroines…
Adama Delphine Fawundu
Photographer Adama Delphine Fawundu works draw from personal experience to explore wider themes of African heritage, mythology, and diaspora....
Adrian Piper
Conceptual artist Adrian Piper explores the self, identity and agency through traditional and non-traditional mediums. Find out more about her work here...
Aïda Muluneh
The work of Aïda Muluneh focusses on women’s experiences and to challenge the singular image of Africa as an impoverished and corrupt continent....
Carrie Mae Weems
Award-winning artist Carrie Mae Weems, works with a variety of mediums, including photography, video and text, to explore themes of racism, sexism and personal identity in her work....
Daesha Devón Harris
Daesha Devón Harris is an American artist whose work focuses on the links between freedom, identity and history in African American communities....
Deana Lawson
Born in 1979, Deana Lawson is an American photographer who focuses on intimacy while capturing Black bodies....
Eileen Perrier
Eileen Perrier is an acclaimed photographer whose work typically focuses on portraiture. From a Dominican and Ghanaian background, her work explores her dual heritage by questioning cultural identity and diversity....
Etinosa Yvonne
Etinosa Yvonne uses photography and video to bring awareness to social issues . Find out more about her recent projects here...
Felicia Abban
Ghana’s first professional women photographer, Felicia Abban (b. 1935) spent her sixty year career documenting Ghanain society and history. Noted for her studio portraits, she opened ‘Mrs. Felicia Abban’s Day and Night Quality Art...
Florestine Perrault Collins
Florestine Perrault Collins navigated the social expectations of her race and gender to give visibility to Black women in 1920's New Orleans....
Heather Agyepong
Photographer Heather Agyepong reimagines historical and cultural figures to explore themes of mental health, invisibility, the diaspora and the archive....
Ingrid Pollard
Ingrid Pollard is an award winning artist who uses different photographic processes alongside printmaking, installation, video, and audio to shed new light on important subjects....
Jane Louise Van Der Zee Toussaint Welcome
Jane 'Jennie' Louise Van Der Zee toussaint Welcome was one of the only Black Women filmmakers during the silent movie era....
Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe
Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe (b. 1951, USA) is an American photographer, photojournalist and AIDS activist....
Jenevieve Aken
Jenevieve Aken uses social documentary photography and self-portraits to explore a variety of social issues through her own personal experiences....
Joana Choumali
Photographer Joana Choumali from Côte d’Ivoire, incorporates embroidery into her work to explore identity & diversity within different African cultures....
Joy Gregory
Joy Gregory is an award-winning photographer who uses a variety of photographic techniques, including digital technology and Victorian camera-less methods...
Khadija Saye
Known as Ya-Haddy Sisi Saye, Khadija was a Gambian-British photographer, celebrated for her extraordinary photographs during her short life, which ended, at the age of 24, in the Grenfell fire of 2017....
LaToya Ruby Frazier
LaToya Ruby Frazier combines photography, video and performance art to focus on racism, environmental issues and deindustrialization....
Laylah Amatullah Barrayn
Laylah Amatullah Barrayn is a documentary and portrait photographer who has been featured in The New York Times, National Geographic and Vogue....
Lebohang Kganye
Lebohang Kganye was born in 1990 in Johannesburg, where she currently lives and works. She obtained a Diploma in Fine Arts from the University of Johannesburg in 2014 and is currently studying for a Masters in Fine Arts at the...
Liz Johnson Artur
Liz Johnson Artur is a Russian-Ghanaian artist based in South East London. Growing up in East Europe and Germany, far from her African roots, she uses photography to explore her heritage and the lives of Black communities....
Lola Flash
Working at the forefront of genderqueer visual politics for more than three decades, Lola Flash (b. 1959, New Jersey) has spent her career challenging the stereotypes surrounding gender, race, and sexuality....
Lorna Simpson
Lorna Simpson is a pioneering conceptual photographer who works with a variety of techniques, including collage, film, and photography....
Marcia Michael
Marcia Michael explores the place of the Black subject in the family album through photography and oral histories. Find out about her recent work here...
María Magdalena Campos-Pons
Award-winning Cuban artist María Magdalena Campos-Pons works across a variety of mediums, including photography, performance, and sculpture, exploring themes of history, gender and religion in relation to identity....
Maud Sulter
Maud Sulter was a contemporary fine artist, photographer, poet, educator and curator. Her work explored her Ghanaian heritage....
Nobukho Nqaba
South African artist Nobukho Nqaba's interdisciplinary work explores migration, opportunity and the home. Find more about her recent projects here...
Nydia Blas
Nydia Blas is a visual artist, originally from New York, who now resides in Georgia. Using a variety of media including photography, collage, video, and books to explore her life as a girl, woman, and mother, her photographs create a...
Rahima Gambo
Photographer Rahima Gambo incorporates sculpture and performance in her work to explore socio-political, psycho-spiritual and autobiographical themes....
Roshini Kempadoo
Roshini Kempadoo is a photographer, media artist and scholar whose practice combines factual and fictional re-imaginings of historical and contemporary experiences....
Ruby Washington
As the first African-American woman hired as a staff photographer for the New York Times, Ruby Washington (1952-2018) was a true pioneer....
Suné Woods
Suné Woods is an acclaimed visual artist living in Los Angeles. Her work typically involves multi-channel video installations, photographs, and collage....
Tshepiso Mazibuko
Tshepiso Mazibuko is a South African photographer who, through the medium of photography, documents everyday life in the township of Thokoza where she lives and works...
Vera Jackson
American photographer Vera Jackson (1912-1999) was noted for her evocative narrative content within her work....
Yagazie Emezi
Artist and photojournalist Yagazie Emezi uses photography to explore the lives of African women through the lens of health, sexuality and education....
Zanele Muholi
The work of Zanele Muholi focuses on Black LGBTI+ people and aims to bring visibility to a marginalised community that suffers extreme violence....
Zarina Bhimji
Zarina Bhimji is an whose work focuses on landscape and architecture with the aim of reflecting the human histories in them...
Zohra Opoku
Ghanaian photographer Zohra Opoku explores ploitical and cultural themes that are rooted in her personal identity and heritage....
We’ve got a couple of easy-to-follow online resources which introduce students to the work of two African artists, encouraging them to learn about the culture and history of the artists, using the lens of their artwork. Our resources will get students thinking about visual language and approaches to making art which can express ideas about culture, history and lived experiences.
