Caribbean Art
Curator David A Bailey joins Shahidha Bari to discuss the artists he has chosen for the Tate Britain exhibition Life Between the Islands, Caribbean British Art 1950s - now.
Aubrey Williams, Donald Locke, Horace Ov茅, Sonia Boyce, Claudette Johnson, Peter Doig, Hurvin Anderson, Grace Wales Bonner and Alberta Whittle have works on show at Tate Britain as part of an exploration of artists from the Caribbean who made their home in Britain, and British artists who have looked at Caribbean themes and heritage in their work. Shahidha Bari's guests include the curator David A Bailey, New Generation Thinker Sophie Oliver and academic Asha Rogers.
David A Bailey is co-curator of Life Between Islands, Caribbean British Art from 1950 at Tate Britain which runs until 3 April 2022
Lubaima Himid's exhibition runs at Tate Modern until 3 July 2022.
You can find a discussion about the Black British Art movement in this playlist exploring Black History on the Free Thinking website - it also includes conversations about the writing of Maryse Cond茅, Aim茅 C茅saire, with Kei Miller and Colin Grant, and a discussion of sugar
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Sophie Oliver is a 91热爆 AHRC New Generation Thinker and Lecturer in Modernism at the University of Liverpool. You can hear her Essay on Jean Rhys's dress here: /programmes/m000v870
Asha Rogers is Associate Professor in Contemporary Postcolonial Literature at the University of Birmingham. She is the author of State Sponsored Literature: Britain and Cultural Diversity after 1945.
Main image: an installation view of the Between the Islands: Caribbean -British Art 1950s - Now exhibition at Tate Britain, London.
Image credit: Tate Photography
Producer: Ruth Watts
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