SISTER PAINTER

Misogynoir, Intersectionality, and Black British Women's Painting

Published September 2022 with Boom Graduate Publications

Sister Painter offers a unique outlook and summary of contemporary events surrounding the Black British artists' movement of the 1980s, and the BLM protests of 2020. An intriguing and valuable perspective on artworld inequalities from an intersectional stance.

ABSTRACT

Studies show that white male chauvinism persist in the arts, this faces Black, Indigenous People of Colour (BIPOC) women artists with a dilemma of intersectional discrimination within education, galleries, museums, and the art market. Research into the British Black Arts Movement (1980s) reveal that BAME artists contributions are ignored within art history and underrepresented in mainstream visual arts institutions. Research into recent feminist academia show that women are also lacking from senior positions within art institutions as well as undervalued within the market (late 20th century-present).  This study aims to underline the necessity in a continuation of activism for Black women’s creative discourse as first expressed by the women involved in the 1980s British Black Arts Movement.