Colorful wave art 80s collage3/1/2023 ![]() ![]() There are currently 16 of Bowling's works on Art UK – a small fraction of his prodigious output – and looked at together in this way they are a wall of vibrant colour and brilliant abstraction, begging to be seen large, loud and proud. After graduating from the Royal College of Art (in the same year as David Hockney), Bowling moved from his early figure paintings to work in abstract – because, he said, abstract painting isn't bound by colour or race.Īs Bowling's canvases grew larger he would paint with them mounted to the walls or floor, and in the 1970s he adopted techniques including spilling, dripping and brushing – referring to his work as 'poured paintings'. NB – this list is not intended to be definitive or exhaustive – if key artists are missing it is not because we've forgotten about them, but in the first instance we have limited our scope to those whose works appear on the Art UK site.Īlongside other major figures – notably Ronald Moody, Aubrey Williams and Uzo Egonu – Bowling was part of an influential group whose art came out of London in the decades following the end of the Second World War, and who set the stage for the further impact of black British art. Either way, the British art scene would undoubtedly be poorer without their contributions. Some of these artists have drawn on their heritage to make art that is explicitly political and confrontational others have produced work completely separate from issues of race. ![]() They helped to put the work of black artists in the spotlight at a time when it was underrepresented, through forming collectives, working in collaboration and curating powerful exhibitions. ![]() The artists here all hail from relatively recent times, and have had a huge impact on the British art scene. Here at Art UK we want to share with you some of our favourite black and British artists from the nation's art collection. Sometimes the nation's art can seem overwhelmingly white – both in subject and artist. It delved into the country's forgotten black history, questioning whether we'll ever have a black Prime Minister, asking people to nominate their #blackbritishhero on Twitter and celebrating Britain's black music scene. Tam Joseph (b.1947) Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centreīack in November 2016, the BBC ran a season of programmes championing 'Black and British'. ![]()
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