An article published in the Financial Times this week, by Caroline Roux, explains:
An exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary brings together work from the 1980s by artists and collectives shaped by the times in which they were living, and the western art canon in which they have struggled to find their own reflection. Its title, The Place is Here, is taken from a work by Himid called “We will be” in which collaged images and text (“The time is now, The place is here”) assert the right of the artist to be visible in the world in which she lives.
Read the full article ‘Black British artists get recognition at last‘ here:
Recognition at last for black British artists – FT