Artists
What do you feel?
Alex Flemming
Born in Brazil, 1954 and now lives and works in Berlin. He has developed a number of ways of looking at the world which over time have provided a political edge to his work.
Anthony Key
Through his artwork, the artist explores how Chinese culture and history is seen in Britain. His work often focuses on food, unpicking stereotypes by playfully blending together British and Chinese cuisine.
Aya Haidar
Her work explores her personal history and her identity as a woman of Lebanese origin growing up in Britain. She uses and recycles objects to make artworks that tell tales of loss, movement, memory and migration.
www.ayahaidar.com
Diana Fonseca
Donald Rodney
Donald often used his body to explore identity and its relationship to society. The tiny house you see in his work is made from the artist’s own skin, removed during one of the many operations that he went through whilst suffering from sickle cell anaemia. He died from the illness in 1998, aged 37.
Fiona Tan
Her work explores how as individuals we inhabit a number of different cultural and social identities; how we look at people and things and in turn how they look at us.
Hew Locke
Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla
Allora & Calzadilla approach art as a set of experiments that test whether ideas such as authorship, nationality, borders, and democracy adequately describe today’s increasingly global and consumerist society.
Juan Pablo Echeverri
Juan began taking photographs of himself everyday as part of a diary project. His public photo booth portraits have been as a way of both recording and generating changes to his appearance and self-image.
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Lucy Orta
NS Harsha
Seen as an important figure within contemporary Indian art, Harsha’s work often highlights social and political inequalities. His work is wide ranging, from detailed figurative painting to site-specific installations.
Otobong Nkanga
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Permindar Kaur
By playing with size and materials, she transforms homely objects that we often think of as comforting and familiar into unsettling or threatening scenes.
Shiraz Bayjoo
In his work Shiraz Bayjoo explores how we think about national, cultural, political, individual and collective identities.
Sokari Douglas Camp
Susan Stockwell
Wilfredo Prieto
Yara El-Sherbini
Zineb Sedira
Who are you? Where are you going?
Anish Kapoor
Born in Bombay in 1954, he is well known and celebrated for his large, elegant sculptures. Most recently he has designed the ArcelorMittal Orbit; a tower that features prominently in London’s Olympic Park.
Chila Kumari Burman
Since the 80s she has been making artwork that challenges stereotypes about Asian women. She often includes images from Bollywood, fashion and popular culture in her work.
Chris Ofili
Turner prize winning artist Ofili combines different kinds of materials in his paintings including paint, resin, glitter and sometimes elephant dung. He also draws on different sources such as comics, the Bible, films and music.
Do-Ho Suh
Born in Seoul, Korea, in 1962. His sculptures often play around with scale; exploring how people experience or feel in different kinds of spaces and situations.
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Francis Upritchard
Franklyn Rodgers
As well as his portraits of artists and writers, he is known for the way in which he creates iconic images that redefine how we view multiculturalism in the UK.
www.franklynrodgers.comFreddie Robins
Freddie uses techniques that we usually connect with homely activities such as knitting and embroidery. Her artworks might seem to be familiar and comforting, but they usually contain a twist.
Gayle Chong Kwan
Gayle Chong Kwan works with photography and installation to create fantastical mise-en-scene landscapes and environments out of disturbing arrangements of waste materials, sensory remains and documentary sources.
Gonkar Gyatso
Born in 1961 in Tibet and now lives in London. In the mid 1980s he was also involved in creating a new kind of art that connects with Tibetan culture.
Hetain Patel
Janine Antoni
Kate Walters
Kate Walters often draws the human body in ways that suggest experiences and feelings. She says that when she is making a drawing she tries to let it take a life of its own.
Laylah Ali
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Leticia Valverdes
Born in 1972 in Brazil, her photographs focus on interactions between people and often look at people’s identities, memories and dreams.
www.leticiavalverdes.com
Lorna Simpson
Became well known in the 1980s for her photographs which challenge narrow, conventional views of gender and identity. In 1993 she was the first Black woman to be included in the Venice Biennale.
Mónica de Miranda
Neeta Madahar
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Yayoi Kusama
Born in Japan, 1929, she is famous for her sculptures and installations in which patterns are repeated over and over. The artist has said that her work comes out of experiences she had as a child. Yinka Shonibare MBE
Zosia Coombes
