Review - We Will Walk: Art and Resistance in the American South

My latest review for Church Times is of We Will Walk: Art and Resistance in the American South at Turner Contemporary:

'These are artists who, finding themselves denied access and agency through systemic racism, in impossible circumstances, and without access to the mainstream of Western fine art, none the less create innovative artworks using whatever found objects are at hand,and often viewing themselves as inspired by God in doing so ...

Systemic racism, precisely because it is systemic, is not easily eradicated. This exhibition supports the struggle, while demonstrating the strength and creativity found among those experiencing the worst of the system’s oppression.'

Other of my pieces for Church Times can be found here. Read more about self-taught artists from the American South here.

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Lonnie Holley - All Rendered Truth.