Claudette Johnson’s exhibition Presence. Review by Jenny Vuglar. Johnson first came to attention in 1982 while a student at The Polytechnic Wolverhampton. Britain’s ‘black cultural renaissance’ began, not in the famous institutions of London but in the Polytechs of the north: Wolverhampton, Trent, Sunderland.
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Vanessa Bell: A World of Form and Colour. Review by Jenny Vuglar. To be a woman artist in the mid twentieth century was not uncommon but to be one that was taken seriously was. The question for women artists was: how did you step out of the strait jacket of ‘lady artist’ into the world of serious collectors, galleries; out of the here and now into eternity?
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