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Address86 Heath Mill Ln, Birmingham B9 4AR, United Kingdom
Hours Closed ⋅ Opens 12PM Wed
Phone +44 121 771 1778
Directors Gavin Wade
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Eastside Projects is an artist-run space in the Digbeth area of Birmingham, England. It is a free public space that is imagined and organised by artists, and includes galleries and studios. It commissions and presents experimental contemporary art exhibitions and proposes ways in which art may be useful to society.

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"Real joy" - artist Sonia Boyce to make history at the Biennale in Venice

Feb 16,2020 10:23 am

Sonia Boyce will fill The British pavilion at the Venice Biennale , 2021

artist Sonia Boyce is to be The First black woman to represent Great Britain at the prestigious Venice Biennale next year.

Boyce, The Flag with a new major exhibition, at the worldwide most important festival for Contemporary Art .

she told BBC Radio 4 's Today programme, came the offer as "a real shock, but a real joy as well".

The London -based artist rose to prominence in the 1980s as one of the leading lights of black British art.

Boyce Devotional collection, an archive of black British women in the music they showed a film, the Exquisite cacophony in Venice in 2015

your art often deals with issues of race and gender, first of all, working with pastel, And Then moving into photography, video, sound and installations.

"That the Early Work in the 1980s was very much about me as the center of many of these images that I made, and I would often talk about Growing Up in the UK, black and female, and what it was like to be this time," she says Today.

"And The Work has shifted since then, which I suspect is what we see when The Show comes to Venice. "

Boyce was chosen for an MBE in 2007, and has been to the Royal Academy in the year 2016. She is currently also creating a large artwork for the new Elizabeth train in Newham, East London .

your installation Paper Tiger Whisky-Soap-theatre seen was in nice, France, in the year 2016 Wallpapers and have worked a high priority in its current exhibition In The Castle of My skin

For their latest exhibition, to show at Eastside Projects in Birmingham, with the title In The Castle of My skin, which it has created, what she described as a "crazy tree" in The Gallery , their backgrounds and The Work of seven artists with whom you are together.

Emma Dexter, Director of visual arts for the British Council , said that The Committee had decided to Boyce at "a crucial moment in the history of Great Britain ".

you said: "she loved the fact that Sonia brings people together. Your practice is very helpful. It is a very open, experimental, and values, to work together with the people and appreciate their differences but still come together. "

Anish Kapoor , Henry Moore , Richard Hamilton , Steve Mcqueen and Tracey Emin are among the artists that they selected previously to the exhibition in The British pavilion in Venice.

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