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“He was our rock,” his sister says. “He was always the most dependable person who was there for anyone who needed help or just someone to talk to.”
Scrap metal, old clothing, paint tins, driftwood, furniture and animal bones are rendered into works rich in personal, social and political symbolism by artists without formal training who for years have been largely overlooked
Encompassing more than 60 works by 34 artists, the exhibition is drawn from the collection of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation.
Conjured out of found objects, plant juice, even dirt, the work of 34 Black artists from the American south is jubilant, defiant, awkward, profound – and innately free
The RA’s new show presents ‘unique African American artistic traditions’, as John Evans sees