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Woman with Cannon (Dots) (from the series House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home)

Martha Rosler initially trained in painting before turning to photography as a student at the University of California San Diego. The years from 1967 to 1972 saw her working on a series of…

Water Composition III

Senga Nengusi was born in Chicago and raised in California. Choosing to study Fine Art at UCLA in the 1960s, she found herself the only Black woman enrolled in the department. Her early…

Going to Bed Without Sleeping

A myriad of eyes seem to bulge from a half-human object. This eerie, uncanny depiction of a hybrid body against a background hatched with swift, powerful lines draws on the aesthetics of Surrealism…

Dogonto

André Tommasini was born in Lausanne to an Italian family of marble headstone suppliers based close to Montoie cemetery. He learned stone-carving with his father before training at the cantonal school of drawing…

Mémoire (Memory)

Born into poverty and racial segregation, Beauford Delaney left his home state of Tennessee to study art in Boston. He moved to New York in 1929, drawn by the Harlem Renaissance and its…

Form Phases IV

Robert Breer was a recent Stanford graduate when he moved to Paris in 1949 to build his career as a painter. His budding style was influenced by concrete art: he regularly exhibited at the Galerie…

Space Poem #2 (Endless Dreams Triptych)

Renée Green’s multimedia installation Endless Dreams and Water Between explores how desires and dreams have taken shape around islands in literature and history. Colourful banners unfurl across the exhibition space to form the poem There…

Acrobats

Leonora Carrington was a wild, rebellious child. She showed an early aptitude for drawing, proved ambidextrous as a painter, and wrote her letters backwards. She also developed an interest in the supernatural world. She discovered…

Zen of Raven – Federskulptur (Zen of Raven – Feather Sculpture)

Rebecca Horn made her first kinetic sculptures in the 1980s, building on a major period of creativity following the artist’s graduation from the Hamburg Hochschule für bildende Künste and a stay in a sanatorium that…

Accidental Encounter

The leading contemporary artist Lubaina Himid was born in Tanzania in 1954. In the 1980s, she became a central figure in the British Black Arts Movement. Also a curator, she won the Turner Prize in…

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