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Review of the 11th London edition of 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Somerset House, 2023
Dr Carol Ann Dixon’s illustrated review of the 11th London edition of 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair. The 2023 showcase at Somerset House featured paintings, sculpture, fine art photography, ceramics, mixed-media installations and other creative outputs by more than 170 artists and collectives from continental Africa and the diaspora.
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Conference on Tourism, Memory and Heritage (Amsterdam, 1-2 June 2023): A Review Report, by Carol Ann Dixon, Ph.D.
In early June 2023 I took part in a transdisciplinary conference on ‘Tourism, Memory and Heritage’ – held at the International Institute of Social History and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Amsterdam (1-2 June 2023). The conference was convened by Dr Emmanuel Akwasi Adu-Ampong (Assistant Professor in Cultural Geography, Wageningen University…
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End of Empire, by Yinka Shonibare CBE: An Art-Political Installation of Significance
Nigerian-British contemporary artist and Royal Academician Yinka Shonibare CBE is one of Britain’s finest creative talents, known internationally for producing a body of visually stunning and thought-provoking art installations that help us to critically examine the impacts and legacies of empire. An example of one of Shonibare’s most insightful works is “End of Empire” (2016).
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Standing Still, by Eugene Palmer – The Poetics of Portraiture at Wolverhampton Art Gallery, UK
Eight new paintings by internationally acclaimed Jamaican-British figurative artist Eugene Palmer (b. 1955, Kingston) are presented in the exhibition ‘Standing Still’ (Wolverhampton Art Gallery, 18 February – 8 May 2023). The launch coincides with the artist’s sublime single-figure portrait of ‘Ann’ (2022) within this series going on public view for the first time in the…
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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Fly in League with the Night (Tate Britain, Nov. 2022 – Feb. 2023)
An illustrated review of the solo exhibition “Fly in League with the Night” (Tate Britain, Nov. 2022- Feb. 2023) – featuring an extensive selection of contemporary figurative paintings and poetry by the internationally acclaimed British artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (b. London, 1977). “At Ease As The Day Breaks Beside Its Erasure / And At Pains To…
