Black Women Time Now

Black Women Time Now was a 1983 art exhibition at the Battersea Arts Centre in London, featuring the work of fifteen artists announcing themselves as Black Women.[1]

The exhibition, curated by Lubaina Himid,[1] was funded by the GLC. The participating artists were Ingrid Pollard, Veronica Ryan, Claudette Johnson, Sonia Boyce, Lubaina Himid, Chila Burman, Mumtaz Karimjee, Houria Niati, Jean Campbell, Andrea Telman, Margaret Cooper, Elizabeth Eugene, Leslee Wills, Cherry Lawrence and Brenda Agard.[2] A programme of theatre, film, music, poetry and dance accompanied the visual art exhibition.[1]

Black Women can be seen as an "active community of artists".[1] Himid had earlier curated the work of several of the same artists at 5 Black Women, a smaller exhibition at the Africa Centre.[3]

References

1. Niru Ratnam (2002). "Black Women Time Now". In Alison Donnell (ed.). Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture. Routledge. p. 127. ISBN 978-1-134-70024-0. Archived from the original on 22 February 2021. Retrieved 24 November 2020.
2. Hazel A.Atashroo, Beyond The ‘Campaign for a Popular Culture’: Community Art, Activism and Cultural Democracy in 1980s London, PhD thesis, Southampton, 2017, p.218.
3. Monique Kerman (2017). Contemporary British Artists of African Descent and the Unburdening of a Generation. Springer International Publishing. p. 194. ISBN 978-3-319-65199-6. Archived from the original on 22 February 2021. Retrieved 24 November 2020.