Tag: Vanley Burke

• 5000 Miles and 70 Years: Vanley Burke’s Windrush-inspired installation at Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham

  

  A new site-specific installation ‘5000 Miles and 70 Years’ by the internationally renowned photographer Vanley Burke was launched at Midlands Arts Centre (MAC) in Birmingham on Friday 4 May 2018. The installation featured a collage of archival materials and photographs from the artist’s extensive portfolio of images relating to the lived experiences of African and…

  Carol Ann Dixon

  May 6, 2018

  Art, Art – Politics, Caribbean Diaspora, Exhibition Review, Photography, United Kingdom

  Birmingham, Black British History, Collage, Midlands Arts Centre, Vanley Burke, Windrush

• “At Home with Vanley Burke”: an immersive installation at the Ikon Gallery

  

  When curators of the recently opened exhibition at the Ikon Gallery invited audiences to feel “At Home with Vanley Burke“ (22 July – 27 September 2015) I was  quite cautious about whether a mainstream British art gallery could create a welcoming space that centralised black British social, political and cultural narratives.  However, I immediately overcame my initial skepticism as soon…

  Carol Ann Dixon

  August 1, 2015

  Art, Art – Politics, Caribbean Diaspora, Diasporas, Exhibition Review, Photography, United Kingdom

  Archives, Birmingham, Black British History, Documentary photography, Eddie Chambers, Ikon Gallery, Installation, Marlene Smith, Vanley Burke