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Dr Elizabeth Robles
PhD (Bristol), MA (Lond.), BA (Boston)
Current positions
Lecturer in Contemporary Art
Department of History of Art (Historical Studies)
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Research interests
I am currently undertaking a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship for a project entitled 'Making Waves: Black Artists & 'Black Art' in Britain from 1963-1982'.
'Making Waves: Black Artists & ‘Black Art’ in Britain from 1963 – 1982’ is a three
year research project that will uncover and interpret a crucial period in the
fractured and unfinished history of Black artists in Britain and British art more
broadly. It will trace the history of African and Asian artists in Britain between the
1st Commonwealth Biennale (1963) and the First National Black Art Convention
(1982) and examine the development of discourses around the implications of and
possibilities for ‘Black Art’ in Britain. During this period, debates around the
intersections of race, nationality and aesthetics set against the background of,
what art historian Kobena Mercer has called, London’s ‘post- colonial
internationalism’ laid the foundations for what would become the British Black Arts
Movement of the 1980s. Bringing together oral histories, archival research and
the sustained visual engagement of iconology, this project will redress the extant
elision of pre-1980s voices from a still emerging narrative of Black creative
production in twentieth century Britain
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Making Waves: Black Artists and 'Black Art' in Britain from 1963-1982
Principal Investigator
Description
Making Waves: Black Artists & ‘Black Art’ in Britain from 1963 – 1982’ is a threeyear research project that will uncover and interpret a crucial period in thefractured and unfinished…Managing organisational unit
Department of History of Art (Historical Studies)Dates
01/10/2017 to 01/10/2020
Publications
Recent publications
01/01/2023Interventions in British Art History: Critical Essays on Artists of African, Caribbean and Asian Descent
Interventions in British Art History: Critical Essays on Artists of African, Caribbean and Asian Descent
Framing the Caribbean: Contemporary Exhibitions in Britain
Liberation Begins in the Imagination
After the Black Arts Movement: Framing the Critical Decade
After the Black Arts Movement: Framing the Critical Decade
Collage and Recollection
Wasafiri
Making Waves
Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art