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2021Blurring the line between mediums, Marcus Maddox aims to “reclaim Blackness as an emblem of power”
His ongoing series, Figures of Colours, is a genre-bending study of Black skin – featuring toned and muted portraiture in signature painterly style.
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Marcus Brutus pairs fluorescent colours with historical moments
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Grace Lynne’s nuanced paintings create “an image where both dark and light coexist at ease”
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Simon Cooper's cubism-inspired artworks are a primary coloured feast
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Chantel Walkes creates collages that are like “snapshots of memory” depicting Black joy throughout time
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Photographer Benjamin Schmuck honours the Voodoo culture of Benin and West Africa
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Fleeting Under Light is Diana Guerra’s exploration of the “shifting nature of memory, home and belonging”
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Abdou Cissé’s Festival of Slaps plays on our tendency to associate Black mothers with corporal punishment
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Mico Toledo's Velho Chico, illustrated by Sophy Hollington, augments Brazilian folklore