Public Exhibition | Presentations
You are welcome to this FREE event from Hammersmith BID, showcasing new artworks from black artists alongside a specially-curated digital exhibition.
Monday 1 – Friday 5 November | 10am – 6pm daily
Presentations: A Celebration of Black Art by Hammersmith BID
In 2021, we are bringing works by black artists back to Hammersmith for a dedicated exhibition for Black History Month. Keep an eye out for details of our events as they come.
– Molten Tears Down Icy Cheeks –
Laurie Fitzgerald
– Inhale –
Laurie Fitzgerald
In celebration of Black History Month we are happy to announce our yearly exhibition highlighting Black visual artists curated by
Bolanle Tajudeen, founder of Black Blossoms School of Art and Culture.
This year the title ‘PRESENTATIONS’ emerges from the many conversations that society has been having around race and identity in Britain.
Artists have been invited to submit work that they feel inspires conversations beyond the usual lens of what it means to Black in Britain.
– Artists Exhibited –
Laurie Fitzgerald @laulightdesigns
Azarra Amoy @azarraamoy
Greg Aime @gregaime_art
Joke Amusan @ibijoke.img
Gus Brooks @gusbrooksart
Ain Bailey @ain.bailey
Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski
Linett Kamala @linett_kamala
Birungi Kawooya @birungiart
Mark Dear @markdear_
Dorcas Magbadelo @dorcascreates
Chantay James @artworkbytay_
Cameron Ugbodu @cameron_ugbodu
Keleenna Onyeaka
Tiffany Lambert @tiffanylamberttt
Louise Hall @louise_hall_art
Yvadney Davis @yvadneydavisart
Bokani Tshidzu @bokani
Yvonne Maxwell @passthedutchpot
– Reading List –
A Black British reading list to accompany the exhibition
– Portraits –
Reni Eddo-Lodge
Reni Eddo-Lodge is a London-based, award-winning journalist and author. She is the winner of a Women of the World Bold Moves Award, an MHP '30 to Watch' Award and was chosen as one of the Top 30 Young People in Digital Media by the Guardian in 2014. She is the author of ‘Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race’.
Cain the Abyss
Cain the Abyss is a London based Artist defining a space he calls ‘Afro-Magical Realism’. His art aims to inspire diaspored African descendants by visually displaying the incredible spiritual power they hold.
Symeon Brown
Symeon Brown is a reporter and journalist at Channel 4 News. Symeon has written for a range of publications including Vice, Guardian, Huffington Post, CNN, New Statesman and The Voice. His Guardian long read on the ‘Wolves of Instagram’ was nominated for a 2019 Orwell Prize and shortlisted for a 2018 British Journalism Award.
Aisha Richards
Aisha Richards is an academic and creative practitioner at the University of the Arts London. She additionally directs a programme called Shades of Noir, which is being implemented across the University of The Arts London
Tanaka Fuego
Tanaka Fuego is a slam-winning, multi-published international spoken word performer. He has performed to sold out shows at Edinburgh’s Fringe Festival, and at the Vault Festival in February. Tanaka is a BBC1Xtra Words First alumni, and a Roundhouse Slam finalist, and has been approached to contribute to multiple poetry anthologies.
Tobi Oredein
Tobi Oredein is the co-founder of Black Ballad, a lifestyle platform and membership for Black British women. Black Ballad's aim is to give the underrepresented voices of black women a platform. Through commissioning regular content around topics that include health, disability, education, popular culture, careers, beauty and much more, Tobi has created a publication that finally represented the intricacies of black women living in today's Britain.
Basheba ‘Bashiie’ Baptiste
Basheba ‘Bashiie’ Baptiste is a writer, producer, poet and actor. She uses her work to collect stories, in turn advocating for mental health and Looked After Children. Bashiie has worked with both The Lyric Hammersmith and The Bush Theatre, as well as with independent practitioners across London.
Eduardo DaCosta
Eduardo DaCosta FRSA is a London-based curator and art critic, drawing on his life long involvement with fine arts. With an interest in contemporary fine art; both postcolonial and decolonising thought and activism; modernism; African and European ontologies act as strategic spines for his work.
Chanelle Edwards
Chanelle Edwards is an artist, designer and researcher, born and based in London. She studied Fashion Design: Womenswear at Central Saint Martins and is interested in using art as a medium to tell stories or raise awareness, so she makes mainly text based artworks. Her style is influenced by the urban environment - street art, style and culture.
Annis Harrison
Annis Harrison is a multi-media artist and teacher who lives and works in London. Of Swedish and Jamaican heritage, she adopted the UK as home after attending St Martins Art College. Recently she has created a series of portraits of young, mixed-heritage Londoners in the style of classic portraiture.
Abondance Matanda
Abondance Matanda is a London-based poet and writer. Abondance's poetry focuses on her experience as a black working class female and her coming of age experiences growing up in Tottenham. Her work is as much an examination of the self as it is a commentary on wider social issues, power dynamics and youth politics in London today.
Home Coming: Voices of the Windrush Generation
Colin Grant
What white people can do next: from allyship to coalition
Emma Dabiri
Feminism, Interrupted
Lola Olufemi
Grown: The black girl’s guide to glowing up
Melissa Commings-Quarry & Natalie A. Carter
Celebrates the diversity of work being produced today by Black artists from around the globe, introducing young readers to twenty-six contemporary artists from Africa and of the African diaspora.
Black artists shaping the world
Sharna Jackson
Glory Akindele returns to London from her seemingly glamorous life in LA to mourn the sudden death of her father, only to find her previously close family has fallen apart in her absence…
Hope and Glory
Jandella Benson
A searing and subversive collection of limericks covering topics from race to toxic masculinity, fully illustrated throughout
Stay Woke, Kids!
Kazvare
Addresses a radical transformation taking place in fashion and art today. The featuring of the Black figure and Black runway and cover models in the media and art has been one marker of increasingly inclusive fashion and art communities (…)
The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and Fashion
Antwaun Vanguard
All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks
JJ Bola explores how LGBTQ men, men of colour, and male refugees experience masculinity in diverse ways, revealing its fluidity, how it’s strengthened and weakened by different political contexts, such as the patriarchy or the far-right, and perceived differently by those around them.
Mask Off: Masculinity Redefined
JJ Bola
As police racism unsettles Britain’s tolerant self-image, Black resistance to British policing details the activism that made movements like Black Lives Matter possible. (…)
Black Resistance to British Policing
Adam Elliott-Cooper
Uniquely amplifies individual women from across the African continent and its global diaspora, as they speak of their diverse experiences of sex, sexualities and relationships.
The Sex Lives of African Women
Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah
– Check out last year’s exhibition –
As part of Black History Month, Hammersmith BID commissioned a digital exhibition, entitled “What does Black Art mean to you”? The piece was curated by Bolanle Tajudeen, the founder of Black Blossoms School of Art & Culture. The project was coordinated by James Mbanefo.
Digital exhibition 2020
What does Black Art mean to you?
Black artistic and creative culture is embedded in the fabric of British society. This digital exhibition asked key figures in the Black creative community to provide a short quote on what Black art means to each of their work and lives, whilst also presenting the artwork of some of the most exciting Black visual artists living in Britain today.
The first part of the digital exhibition showcases works from some of the finest established and emerging black artists in London. We see pieces from artists such as Birungi Kawooya, Emily Moore, Anais Harrison and Emma Prempeh. The second part of the exhibition focuses on key figures within the Black Art Community, the portraits of these key figures feature alongside a short quote on what black art means to each of them. Throughout the exhibition we display book covers from excellent black authors such as Reni Eddo-Lodge and Bolu Babalola. The exhibition has been supported by the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham.
The exhibition originally debuted at Lyric Square Hammersmith, October 2020 and will be shown for Black History Month 2021.
– Artists Exhibited –
Annis Harrison @annisharrison
Azarra Amoy @azarraamoy
Birungi Kawooya @birungiart
Emily Moore @emily.moore7
Emma Prempeh @reclus__e
Hamid Mayie @mai_ye
Joseph Ijeoymei @mrj_artclub
Leanne Ingram @lifinearts
Linett Kamala @linett_kamala
Louise Hall @louise_hall_art
Merrisa Hylton @merissahyltonart
Phoebe Boswell @phoebe.boswell
Rebecca Bellantoni @rebecca.bellantoni
Tiffany Lambert @boundedldn
Music Mix by Charisse C @charisseec