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Sing for your supper

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Artist (England, lives and works in London)

Het werk van deze Britse Afro-Caribbean kunstenaar betreft veelal onderwerpen als ras, etniciteit, hedendaagse stedelijke ervaringen en het bevragen van raciale stereotypes zoals deze in het dagelijks leven in de media worden voorgesteld. Recent is ze meer gaan werken met een combinatie van fotografie, collages, films, drukwerk, installatie en geluid. Sonia Boyce heeft in geïmproviseerde samenwerkingsverbanden met andere kunstenaars gewerkt waarbij het publiek een scherpere visie ontwikkelt en culturele verschillen uitgesproken en de lusten en de lasten er van ervaren worden.

Boyce's project heet 'Sing for your supper'.

Sonia Boyce was born in London in 1962 and emerged in the early 1980s as a figurative painter, quickly gaining critical attention as an emerging figure in the black British arts movement, for works that spoke about racial identity and gender in Britain.

Since the 1990s Boyce has worked increasingly with other people in what she likes to call ‘improvised collaborations’, bringing the audience into sharper focus as an integral part of the artwork and demonstrating how cultural differences might be articulated, mediated and enjoyed.

Materially she has travelled as well, to incorporate a wide variety of media that combine photographs, collages, films, prints, drawings, installation and sound.

Since 1983, she has exhibited extensively throughout the UK and internationally. Monographs about her work include Sonia Boyce: Speaking in Tongues, (Gilane Tawadros, Kala Press 1997), Annotations 2/Sonia Boyce: Performance, (Mark Crinson, Iniva - the Institute of International Visual Arts 1998); Recent Sonia Boyce: La, La, La (Susan Fillin-Yeh and Marcus Verhagen, Reed College 2001); and For you, only you (Paul Bonaventura, Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art, Oxford in collaboration with De La Warr Pavilion, Locus+, Milton Keynes Gallery, and Model Arts 2007).

In 2007, Sonia Boyce - along with David A Bailey and Ian Baucom - received the ‘History of British Art’ Book Prize (USA) for the edited volume Shades of Black: Assembling Black Arts in 1980s Britain, published by Duke University Press in collaboration with Iniva (the Institute of International Visual Arts) and AAVAA (the African and Asian Visual Artists Archive). In the same year she received an MBE for ‘services to art’. Boyce is currently an AHRC Research Fellow at Wimbledon College of Art and Design: Centre for Drawing, University of the Arts London, researching the dynamics and ethics of collaboration.

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