Women of Colour Index Reading Group Event 6

Women of Colour Index Reading Group Event 6

Join us for the 6th Women of Colour Index Reading Group Special Collections & Archives, The Library with Althea Greenan, Samia Malik and Rehana Zaman

Full address: Women's Art Library, Special Collections, Library, Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross SE14 6NW

Event Date: Monday 20th February 2017
Time: 10.30am - 1.00pm

WOCI Reading Group started in October 2016 by Michelle Williams Gamaker, Samia Malik and Rahana Zaman. Once a month WOCI Reading Group workshops are organised at Women’s Art Library to read text and look at art work by women of colour artists. WOCI Reading Group aims to create and improve visibility of women of colour artists. WOCI Reading Group welcomes all, people from all backgrounds, genders, religions and races. During workshop critical discussions are encouraged.

Below workshop reading text, all reading texts are materials from Women of Colour Archive collated by Rita Keegan. To clarify Sonia Boyce will not be at the reading group, text references Sonia Boyce’s solo exhibition at Rochdale Art Gallery in 1987.

Workshop reading text:

Artist: Sonia Boyce

ROCHDALE ART GALLERY

SONIA BOYCE

4th July - 1st August 1987

Preview - Friday 3rd July 7.30pm - All welcome

Sonia Boyce is one of many Blackwomen artists who are making an important intervention into contemporary art practice.
Sonia’s work has recently been seen in many group exhibitions including ‘Blackskin/ Bluecoat’ (Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, 1985). ‘The Thin Black Line’ (ICA, London, 1985) and ‘From Two Worlds’ (Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1986). This is Sonia’s second one-person exhibition. She has taught at St Martin’s School of Art, Leeds University and the Triangle, Birmingham and for the past year has worked at the Docklands Community Poster Project in London.

The exhibition was organised by the AIR Gallery, London and includes large charcoal and pastel drawings.

‘A child’s curiosity and fear of the adult world, religion and personal relationships. These have been my main themes - the familiar and the sensual; the familiar and the uncomfortable.’
(Sonia Boyce; ’The Thin Black Line’ catalogue.)

‘Being a black women is a perpetual struggle to be heard and appreciated as a human being. Many thoughts and fast fleeting images ran through me. I stretched my tiny arms to enfold the world but my embrace was inadequate. I put on political arms as an extension. Ideas burned, images continued to elude me.’
(Sonia Boyce; Extract from a conversation with Pitika Ntuli, AIR Gallery catalogue.)

‘Her main interest lies in depicting personal relationships and domestic situations - themes which might not be outwardly considered central to the black struggle. But precisely because her work does raise questions about the balance of power in relationships, about acceptable codes of behaviour and social taboos, it serves to subvert conventional norms.’
(AIR Gallery catalogue.)

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