This portrait of Olaudah Equiano, the enslaved African who became a free man, wrote a book about his experience and a became a leading abolitionist, by Christy Symington, is currently on show at the Royal Society of Sculptors Summer Exhibition. […]
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Untitled (Mlle Bourgeoise Noire). 1980-83Mlle Bourgeoise Noire – Ms Black Middle-Class – was the alter ego of Lorraine O’Grady (performance 1980-83). O’Grady turned her anger at the lack of opportunities for black artists to show their work, into this public […]
