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Mamma’s Black Heroes
08/10/2021 - 09/11/2021 // 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm @ BMECP Centre
08/10/2021 - 09/11/2021 // 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm @ BMECP Centre
The mini solo exhibition will showcase Annis Harrison's digital collages Mamma’s Black Heroes as part of SEAS's celebration of Black History Month. Mamma's Black Heroes is an ongoing project that was started because the artist wanted her children to know the names and the work of some of the black people who had a great influence on her life. Harrison said, as her children were growing up, “I became aware that their knowledge of black writers, artists and political activists just wasn’t very informed, and they weren’t being taught about them at school. So I decided to start making these plates to start a conversation about influential and inspiring [but unsung] black people who have contributed massively to our society.”
Annis Harrison is a multi-disciplinary artist who lives and works in London. Of Swedish and Jamaican heritage, she adopted the UK as a home after attending Saint Martins Art College. Both in Sweden and in the UK, Annis has always occupied her own space, having a foot in more than one culture, more than one ethnicity, more than one language. Neither outside or inside, her art has always reflected this fascinating cultural duality.
Anyone interested in Black History Month