Revisiting the Work of Black Artists in Scotland through New Collecting
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of modern and contemporary artworks by artists with an African or Caribbean heritage who have trained, lived or exhibited in Scotland. At the heart of this growing collection is the Art Fund New Collecting Award project initiated by independent curatorial duo, Mother Tongue - Tiffany Boyle and Jessica Carden. A practice-led art historical enquiry, their AfroScots research (2015 - ) sought to create new pluralities for the existing narratives of Scottish art, particularly speaking to issues of race and visibility. For complex reasons, many of the artists included within their research did not stay in Scotland permanently. This is reflected in the lack of recognition that many of the artists included within their AfroScots timeline have locally, whilst their time in Scotland is equally often omitted from Black-British art histories. The New Collecting Award with Glasgow Museums begins to address this absence, speaking to issues of representation and decolonisation, and urges a re-imagining of Scottish art histories. The collection includes work by Tam Joseph, Maud Sulter, Donald Locke, Alberta Whittle and Aubrey Williams.
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