Dates:
28 Apr 2022
People:
Location:
Black Cultural Archives, London
In April 2022 ICF invited artists John Lyons and Andrew Pierre Hart to be in conversation, to share insight into their painting practices, their engagements with poetry and music, and their experiences of Carnival. Hosted by Black Cultural Archives, John and Andrew spent an afternoon getting to know each others’ work, telling stories, and enjoying some of the rich materials housed at BCA.
This cross-generational conversation was designed to complement ICF’s 2021 publication Liberation Begins in the Imagination: Writings on Caribbean-British Art. Produced alongside the Tate Britain exhibition Life Between Islands, this publication is an essential anthology on Caribbean-British art, which brings together existing writings and previously unpublished texts from the post-war period to the present, as well as revelatory new essays from some of the most influential voices on the subject.
We saw this conversation as an opportunity for the artists to highlight and explore moments of contact and divergences across their careers, reflect on the events and forces that influenced them, as well as discuss the importance of engaging with this history in order to champion future generations of British Caribbean artists.
Credits
Shot by: Lou Jasmine
Edited by: Yolande Mutale
Sound editing: Owen Peters
With assistance from: Rhoda Boateng, Orsod Malik and Yuwei Yao
Chaired by: Jessica Taylor
With thanks to: Lisa Anderson and the Paul Mellon Centre
People:
In April 2022 ICF invited artists John Lyons and Andrew Pierre Hart to be in conversation, to share insight into their painting practices, their engagements with poetry and music, and their experiences of Carnival. Hosted by Black Cultural Archives, John and Andrew spent an afternoon getting to know each others’ work, telling stories, and enjoying some of the rich materials housed at BCA.
This cross-generational conversation was designed to complement ICF’s 2021 publication Liberation Begins in the Imagination: Writings on Caribbean-British Art. Produced alongside the Tate Britain exhibition Life Between Islands, this publication is an essential anthology on Caribbean-British art, which brings together existing writings and previously unpublished texts from the post-war period to the present, as well as revelatory new essays from some of the most influential voices on the subject.
We saw this conversation as an opportunity for the artists to highlight and explore moments of contact and divergences across their careers, reflect on the events and forces that influenced them, as well as discuss the importance of engaging with this history in order to champion future generations of British Caribbean artists.
Credits
Shot by: Lou Jasmine
Edited by: Yolande Mutale
Sound editing: Owen Peters
With assistance from: Rhoda Boateng, Orsod Malik and Yuwei Yao
Chaired by: Jessica Taylor
With thanks to: Lisa Anderson and the Paul Mellon Centre
Dates:
28 Apr 2022
Location:
Black Cultural Archives, London
