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Super Black: Arts Council Collection Programme Partners Exhibition

Firstsite / October 11, 2019 - January 12, 2020 / Colchester, United Kingdom

https://firstsite.uk/whats-on/super-black/

Super Black
An Arts Council Collection National Partner Exhibition
Fri 11 Oct '19 - Sun 12 Jan '20
Open every day 10am - 5pm
FREE


In the first of its brand-new series of Arts Council Collection National Partner exhibitions, Firstsite is staging Super Black – an exhibition that asks, 'What does it mean to be black in England today?'.

Led by people from Essex’s black community, the exhibition presents artworks from the Arts Council Collection, alongside new work by Southend-based artist, Elsa James, and objects from the Vanley Burke Archive.

In creating the exhibition, Elsa has been joined by Lawrence Walker, Chair of Black History Month Colchester, Rachel Walton, co-founder of African Families in the UK (AFiUK), and Simone McLean and Yasmin Carr, of Colchester-based S&S Caribbean Café.

The artworks they have chosen for the exhibition reflect the group’s discussions, consisting of pieces that they feel give an expression of black consciousness, and the representation of black artists in galleries across the UK.

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