{"id":501,"date":"2023-11-09T15:04:39","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T15:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/?page_id=501"},"modified":"2023-11-22T11:25:02","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T11:25:02","slug":"alice-correia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/theworldthatbelongstous\/writings\/alice-correia\/","title":{"rendered":"Alice Correia"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"501\" class=\"elementor elementor-501\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-0ea8ef5 elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"0ea8ef5\" 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elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-607c874 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"607c874\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/theworldthatbelongstous\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/the-world-that-belongs-to-us_LOGO-700w.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/the-world-that-belongs-to-us_LOGO-700w.png 700w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/the-world-that-belongs-to-us_LOGO-700w-300x204.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-25 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-e37b562\" data-id=\"e37b562\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2c41495 elementor-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"2c41495\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/theworldthatbelongstous\/writings\/\" class=\"elementor-button-link elementor-button elementor-size-xl\" role=\"button\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\"><\/span>\n\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d8c4d2a elementor-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"d8c4d2a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-size-xs\" role=\"button\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\"> Where are all the Britsh Asian Artists?<\/span>\n\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5e63bae elementor-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"5e63bae\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/theworldthatbelongstous\/writings\/alpesh-kantilal-patel\/\" class=\"elementor-button-link elementor-button elementor-size-xs elementor-animation-grow\" role=\"button\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Making Oneself at Home<\/span>\n\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-25 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-f9a8781\" data-id=\"f9a8781\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-06245cd elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"06245cd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-221bc33 elementor-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"221bc33\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/theworldthatbelongstous\/events\/\" class=\"elementor-button-link elementor-button elementor-size-xl\" role=\"button\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\"><\/span>\n\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a4fa859 elementor-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"a4fa859\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" class=\"elementor-button-link elementor-button elementor-size-xl\" role=\"button\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\"><\/span>\n\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1a4357e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"1a4357e\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-0c1d46b\" data-id=\"0c1d46b\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-b847bb9 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"b847bb9\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-543e51b\" data-id=\"543e51b\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2880bad elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"2880bad\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Where Are All the British Asian Artists?<\/h3>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-da7375e elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"da7375e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">by Alice Correia<\/h3>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-30112c1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"30112c1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4d1a41e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"4d1a41e\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-9f26e0c\" 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height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/vice-article.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/vice-article.png 447w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/vice-article-300x242.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 447px) 100vw, 447px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9475798 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9475798\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cWhere Are All the British Asian Artists?\u201d, Vice Magazine, 23 September 2015. Screenshot.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-596789d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"596789d\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-15e4173\" data-id=\"15e4173\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-91eb0bb elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"91eb0bb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>In late 2015, a magazine headline asked: \u201cwhere are all the British Asian artists?\u201d The question preceded an article about the Birmingham born, Glasgow-based British-Sikh artist Hardeep Pandhal. While <em>The World That Belongs to Us<\/em> positions Pandhal within a globally dispersed network of South Asian diaspora artists, in 2015 the journalist Alun Evans attempted to situate and contextualise Pandhal and his work within a history of British-Asian art. Evans identified Anish Kapoor, Zarina Bhimji, Shezad Dawood, Haroon Mirza, and Chila Kumari Burman as British-Asian success stories, while simultaneously concluding, \u201cif you&#8217;re not a dedicated follower, practitioner or scholar of British contemporary art, you\u2019d be forgiven for never having heard of them before\u201d.<sup>1<\/sup><\/p><p>While the headline may have been clickbait, it nonetheless raised a number of interconnected questions that went beyond an ability (or not) to name a handful of artists. Because, once you start looking, there have been, and continue to be, many artists of South Asian heritage working in Britain, even though their contributions to British art have not been adequately recorded, exhibited, or published. It is notable that to date, there is only one book dedicated to the history of South Asian diaspora artists in Britain.<sup>2<\/sup> The widespread cultural amnesia about artists as diverse as Amal Ghosh, Anita Kaushik, and Juginder Lamba, allows for a situation in which the apparent scarcity of British-Asian artists can become the headline.<\/p><p>Given that archives such as the <em>Panchayat Collection<\/em> tell rich and expansive stories of British-Asian art,<sup>3<\/sup> how do we account for absence of those stories from mainstream art history? Working in London during the 1950s, artists including FN Souza, Anwar Jalal Shemza and Avinash Chandra found that their work was excluded from narratives of modern painting as critics and curators expected to see discernible <em>exotic<\/em> references in their work.<sup>4<\/sup> In 1981, reflecting on the nature of Britain\u2019s white art world, artist Balraj Khanna wrote:<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-89d90c3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"89d90c3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>Hypocrisy, superciliousness, vanity and arrogance are some of its traits, mainly located in the cliques that control art journalism, exposure, sponsorship and general patronage. Arguably it is tough for any artist at the best of times, but for some reason it is tougher even for artists as good, say, as Avinash Chandra, Francis Souza and Rasheed Araeen; the lesser ones do not stand a chance. Some may say this is a kind of racial discrimination and they won\u2019t be wrong if they do.<sup>5<\/sup><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8ae9614 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8ae9614\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>So how do we challenge such long-standing, structural, institutionalised racism and neglect by Britain\u2019s art historians, curators, and galleries?<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5798530 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"5798530\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a239bd3\" data-id=\"a239bd3\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b329a88 elementor-widget elementor-widget-toggle\" data-id=\"b329a88\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"toggle.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle\" role=\"tablist\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-1871\" class=\"elementor-tab-title\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-1871\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon elementor-toggle-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-closed\"><i class=\"fas fa-caret-right\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened\"><i class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened fas fa-caret-up\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"\" class=\"elementor-toggle-title\">View footnotes<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-1871\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-1871\"><p><sup>1<\/sup> Alun Evans, \u201cWhere Are All the British Asian Artists?\u201d <em>Vice Magazine<\/em>, 23 September 2015, \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/exq5yw\/where-are-all-the-british-asian-artists-623\">https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/exq5yw\/where-are-all-the-british-asian-artists-623<\/a>, accessed 19 October 2023.<br \/><sup>2<\/sup> Amal Ghosh and Juginder Lamba (eds.), <em>Beyond Frontiers: Contemporary British Art by Artists of South Asian Descent<\/em>, London: Saffron Press, 2001. However, it\u2019s important to note that a new generation of art historians including Alina Khakoo and Hassan Vawda are undertaking and publishing research on British South Asian diaspora artists.<br \/><sup>3<\/sup> See Panchayat Collection, Tate Library and Archive, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/research\/panchayat-collection-research-resource\">https:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/research\/panchayat-collection-research-resource<\/a>, accessed 19 October 2023.<br \/><sup>4<\/sup> See Alice Correia, \u201c\u2018Respectable Exotics\u2019: Exhibiting South Asian Modernists in Britain, 1958 and 2017\u201d, <em>Visual Culture in Britain<\/em>, vol.23, no.3 January 2021, <a href=\"http:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/14714787.2020.1852887\">doi.org\/10.1080\/14714787.2020.1852887<\/a><br \/><sup>5<\/sup> Balraj Khanna, \u201cObscure but Important\u201d, <em>Art Monthly<\/em>, no.36, October 1980, p.25.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-ea1c710 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"ea1c710\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6a94a19\" data-id=\"6a94a19\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-baecc5d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"baecc5d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>In the introduction to his groundbreaking study, <em>The Location of Culture<\/em>, Homi Bhabha asserted that \u201cThe Western metropole must confront its postcolonial history, told by its influx of post-war migrants and refugees, as an indigenous or native narrative <em>internal to its national identity<\/em>\u201d.<sup>6<\/sup> Following Bhabha, if we are to move forward as a coherent and cohesive multicultural society we must pay attention to Britian\u2019s global connections, and fully recognise diaspora artistic practice as internal to narratives of British art. This means attending to the histories of Asian, black and diaspora artists, their exhibitions, and the debates that took place around their work; it means recording and analysing the texts that were written and the pamphlets that were published. And it means excavating archives for stories of art that occurred outside of the dominant metropolitan centre. The dominant story of British art in the twentieth century has been London-centric: the Bloomsbury group; Swinging London and 1960s Pop; Goldsmiths College and the yBas. But outside of the capital, towns and cities including Walsall, Sheffield, Bradford, and Rochdale have been sites of innovative, and culturally diverse, artistic ecosystems. Attempting to redress the art historical neglect faced by South Asian diaspora artists in Britain is then to also challenge the pejorative dismissal and exclusion of artistic practice from the <em>regions<\/em>.<\/p><p>What we find when we move away from the metropolitan centre and move into the margins are rich histories of creativity. Since the 1960s, public collections and galleries across the Midlands and Northern England, staffed with socio-politically engaged curators, have been acquiring work by, and staging significant exhibitions of, South Asian diaspora artists. Leicestershire County Council Artworks Collection holds important works by Avinash Chandra and Tyeb Mehta, acquired in the 1960s, as part of its strategy to build a nationally significant collection of modern art. During the 1970s, Cartwright Hall, Bradford, acquired works by Balraj Khanna and Anwar Jalal Shemza, and in the 1980s and early 1990s, under the guidance of Nima Poovaya-Smith (Keeper of Arts), assembled an unparalleled collection of contemporary art by South Asian diaspora artists.<sup>7<\/sup> More recently, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery became home to the <em>South Asian Diaspora Arts Archive<\/em> (SADAA). However, within a national context such engagement with South Asian diaspora artists was, and remains unusual. Despite the efforts of artist, curator, and critic Rasheed Araeen to champion the likes of Chandra, Khanna, Shemza and Souza in his groundbreaking exhibition, <em>The Other Story: Afro-Asian Artists in Post-War Britain<\/em>, in 1989, they were, until very recently, largely excluded from exhibitions and publications on twentieth century British art.<sup>8<\/sup><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f5ad3f8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f5ad3f8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>\u201cThe Western metropole must confront its postcolonial history, told by its influx of post-war migrants and refugees, as an indigenous or native narrative <em>internal to its national identity<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-df18a61 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"df18a61\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>The Location of Culture, <\/em>Homi Bhabha<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-eadd1cd elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"eadd1cd\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-f3518ef\" data-id=\"f3518ef\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1ea1e75 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1ea1e75\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>Throughout the 1980s, Rasheed Araeen was at the forefront of debates about the representation of black and Asian artists in British art galleries and collections. During this period, groups of Midlands-based artists collaborated to stage exhibitions and public debates about the place and representation of artists of colour within structurally racist institutions. Araeen was a speaker at the <em>First National Convention of Black Art<\/em>, staged at Wolverhampton Polytechnic in October 1982, organised by the BLK Art Group, whose members included Eddie Chambers, Keith Piper, Donald Rodney and Marlene Smith.<sup>9<\/sup> At this time in the UK, Black was broadly understood as a politically strategic term denoting anti-racist solidarity amongst people of colour and diasporic people. As cultural theorist Stuart Hall reflected, the term Black, \u201ccame to provide the organizing category of a new politics of resistance, amongst groups and communities with, in fact, very different histories, traditions and ethnic identities\u201d.<sup>10<\/sup> In response to demands from black and Asian artists that their work be exhibited, by the mid-1980s, group exhibitions of <em>Black art and Asian art<\/em> were periodically staged in galleries from Liverpool and Oldham, to Bristol and London. However, these exhibitions were often sprawling events in which participating artists and their work had little in common beyond their non-whiteness.<sup>11<\/sup> While these exhibitions were useful for facilitating the rare display of work by artists of colour, in 1986 Eddie Chambers raised a note of caution. In an article titled, <em>The Marginalisation of Black Art<\/em>, Chambers argued that in general, the patronage offered to artists of colour by white-led institutions was exploitative: Asian and black contemporary artists found themselves segregated from their white peers, while critical engagement with the form and materials of their work remained negligible.<sup>12<\/sup><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d49066c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"d49066c\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e02f655\" data-id=\"e02f655\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-953f5f4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-toggle\" data-id=\"953f5f4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"toggle.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle\" role=\"tablist\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-1561\" class=\"elementor-tab-title\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-1561\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon elementor-toggle-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-closed\"><i class=\"fas fa-caret-right\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened\"><i class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened fas fa-caret-up\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"\" class=\"elementor-toggle-title\">View footnotes<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-1561\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-1561\"><p><sup>6<\/sup> Homi Bhabha, The Location of Culture, London: Routledge, 1993, p.6.<br \/><sup>7<\/sup> \u00a0See Nima Poovaya-Smith, \u201cKeys to the magic kingdom: The new transcultural collections of Bradford Art Galleries and Museums\u201d, in Tim Barringer and Tom Flynn (eds.), Colonialism and the Object: Empire, Material Culture and the Museum, London: Routledge, 1998, pp.111-125, p.115.<br \/><sup>8<\/sup> Rasheed Araeen (ed.), The Other Story: Afro-Asian Artists in Post-War Britain, exhibition catalogue, London: Southbank Centre, 1989. The exhibition, Post-War Modern: New Art in Britain, 1945-1965, staged at the Barbican, London, 2022, and its attendant catalogue, did much to redress the pervasive exclusion of artist of colour from narratives of post-war British art.<br \/><sup>9<\/sup> See BLK Art Group Research Project, <a href=\"http:\/\/blkartgroup.info\">http:\/\/blkartgroup.info<\/a><br \/><sup>10<\/sup> Stuart Hall, \u201cNew Ethnicities (1988)\u201d, in James Procter (ed.), Writing black Britain 1948-1998: An interdisciplinary anthology, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000, pp.265-275, p.266.<br \/><sup>11<\/sup> These criticisms were particularly levelled at the exhibition, From Two Worlds, Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1986. See Eddie Chambers, \u201cMainstream Capers\u201d, ArtRage, no.14, Autumn 1986, pp.31, 33\u20134.<br \/><sup>12<\/sup> Eddie Chambers, \u201cThe Marginalisation of Black Art\u201d, Race Today Review, February 1986, pp.32\u20133. Reproduced in Alice Correia (ed.), What is Black Art? Writings on African, Caribbean and Asian Artists in Britain, 1981-1989, London: Penguin, 2022, pp.75-80.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-50e9aa0 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"50e9aa0\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3aa625b\" data-id=\"3aa625b\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7610083 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"7610083\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"613\" height=\"433\" src=\"https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/eastern-view_leicester.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/eastern-view_leicester.jpg 613w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/eastern-view_leicester-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 613px) 100vw, 613px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bb7257e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"bb7257e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>Eastern Views: Works by Young Asian Artists from the Midlands<\/em>, Leicestershire Museum Services, 1985.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-45c76ce elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"45c76ce\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b742f95\" data-id=\"b742f95\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b5450a8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b5450a8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>Indeed, discussing the work and career of painter Gurminder Sikand, Tim Youngs recorded that although as \u201ca member of Nottingham Asian Artists\u2019 Group, together with Sardul Gill and Said Adrus, she has benefited from the funding (by East Midlands Arts)\u201d, Sikand nonetheless \u201cargues that pressures can be exerted which tend to promote stereotypes at the expense of individual expression\u201d.<sup>13<\/sup>\u00a0The type of negative stereotyping that Sikand observed can be levelled at exhibitions such as <em>Eastern Views: Works by Young Asian Artists from the Midlands<\/em>, which included work by Said Adrus, Saleem Ayub, Surinder Singh Juttla, Anu Patel and Sikand, at New Walk Museum, Leicester. While well-intentioned, read with hindsight, the exhibition\u2019s title and accompanying press release repeat exoticizing and othering tropes found in colonial-era interpretations of Indian art. Aware of these debates surrounding the representation of black and South Asian artists in British galleries, by the later 1980s curator Deborah Robinson, with the support of the Director Peter Jenkinson, sought to embed equality, diversity and social-consciousness within the exhibition programme at Walsall Museum and Art Gallery in ways that went beyond tokenistic gestures.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-44dc7ff elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"44dc7ff\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-c38ee80\" data-id=\"c38ee80\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4803cb9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"4803cb9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"939\" src=\"https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/warm-and-rich_view1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/warm-and-rich_view1.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/warm-and-rich_view1-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/warm-and-rich_view1-1024x641.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/warm-and-rich_view1-768x481.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/warm-and-rich_view1-1200x751.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5098dfb elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5098dfb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Warm and Rich and Fearless, Walsall Museum and Art Gallery, Spring 1992. Digitised slides from Walsall\u2019s archives.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-93b28c7 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"93b28c7\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6407bac\" data-id=\"6407bac\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7af6031 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7af6031\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>Staff at Walsall Museum and Art Gallery were conscious that by the mid-1990s, approximately 7 per-cent of the borough\u2019s population was of Asian origin, and that 7 out of 10 visitors to the gallery came from the local area.<sup>14<\/sup> As such, the gallery undertook a curatorial decision to stage exhibitions that were locally relevant. Curators sought to develop an exhibition programme that included displays by South Asian diaspora artists, and those that addressed South Asian religious and cultural identities. One such exhibition was <em>Warm and Rich and Fearless<\/em> (Spring 1992), an exhibition of Sikh art that had been organised by Cartwright Hall.<sup>15<\/sup> The exhibition sought to give insight into Sikh history and culture, and included sacred texts, paintings, costumes, textiles, and weaponry; many of the artworks were lent by the V&amp;A museum and the Royal Collection and had not been previously exhibited. When the exhibition toured to Walsall, care was taken to adjust the displays for local audiences, and arts-teacher Amarjit Singh was employed as the exhibition\u2019s Community Events co-ordinator. In this role, Singh worked with two Gurudwaras and members of the Sikh community to collaboratively programme a series of musical performances, discussions, story-telling sessions, and art workshops led by textile artist Sarbjit Natt. While the exhibition attracted new audiences and forged new networks and collaborations, in their evaluation of the project Singh and Walsall Education Officer Alison Cox nonetheless recognised that this was a one-off project, supported by external funds. The question of how to embed diversity within the fabric of the gallery and its programme remained; they rightly asked: \u201cHow can museums dominated by culturally unrepresentative art and history collections begin to represent diversity without appearing tokenistic?\u201d<sup>16<\/sup><\/p><p>One strategy that curators at Walsall adopted was to ensure that hitherto marginalised artists were actively included within its programme of contemporary art exhibitions. Offering artists solo shows and taking care that group exhibitions included artists from a range of diverse backgrounds, during the 1990s Walsall took steps towards establishing an inclusive exhibition programme. Group exhibitions such as <em>Confrontations<\/em> (1993) and <em>Splash! Contemporary Watercolour Painting<\/em> (1995) are important because they positioned South Asian diaspora artists alongside their white peers according to a thematic subject matter or the material form of their work.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-ccd9a3d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"ccd9a3d\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-89dce85\" data-id=\"89dce85\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-086a109 elementor-widget elementor-widget-toggle\" data-id=\"086a109\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"toggle.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle\" role=\"tablist\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-8821\" class=\"elementor-tab-title\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-8821\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon elementor-toggle-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-closed\"><i class=\"fas fa-caret-right\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened\"><i class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened fas fa-caret-up\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"\" class=\"elementor-toggle-title\">View footnotes<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-8821\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-8821\"><p><sup>6<\/sup> Homi Bhabha, The <em>Location of Culture<\/em>, London: Routledge, 1993, p.6.<br \/><sup>7<\/sup> \u00a0See Nima Poovaya-Smith, \u201cKeys to the magic kingdom: The new transcultural collections of Bradford Art Galleries and Museums\u201d, in Tim Barringer and Tom Flynn (eds.), <em>Colonialism and the Object: Empire, Material Culture and the Museum<\/em>, London: Routledge, 1998, pp.111-125, p.115.<br \/><sup>8<\/sup> Rasheed Araeen (ed.), The <em>Other Story: Afro-Asian Artists in Post-War Britain<\/em>, exhibition catalogue, London: Southbank Centre, 1989. The exhibition, <em>Post-War Modern: New Art in Britain, 1945-1965<\/em>, staged at the Barbican, London, 2022, and its attendant catalogue, did much to redress the pervasive exclusion of artist of colour from narratives of post-war British art.<br \/><sup>9<\/sup> See <em>BLK Art Group Research Project<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blkartgroup.info\">http:\/\/blkartgroup.info<\/a><br \/><sup>10<\/sup> Stuart Hall, \u201cNew Ethnicities (1988)\u201d, in James Procter (ed.), <em>Writing black Britain<\/em> 1948-1998: <em>An interdisciplinary anthology<\/em>, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000, pp.265-275, p.266.<br \/><sup>11<\/sup> These criticisms were particularly levelled at the exhibition, <em>From Two Worlds<\/em>, Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1986. See Eddie Chambers, \u201cMainstream Capers\u201d, ArtRage, no.14, Autumn 1986, pp.31, 33\u20134.<br \/><sup>12<\/sup> Eddie Chambers, \u201cThe Marginalisation of Black Art\u201d, Race Today Review, February 1986, pp.32\u20133. Reproduced in Alice Correia (ed.), <em>What is Black Art? Writings on African, Caribbean and Asian Artists in Britain<\/em>, 1981-1989, London: Penguin, 2022, pp.75-80.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-bd71907 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"bd71907\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-ba9f8f1\" data-id=\"ba9f8f1\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e40be1c elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"e40be1c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"978\" src=\"https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/confrontations.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/confrontations.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/confrontations-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/confrontations-1024x668.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/confrontations-768x501.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/confrontations-1200x782.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6881b86 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6881b86\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>Confrontations<\/em>, Walsall Museum and Art Gallery, 1993. Digitised slides from Walsall\u2019s archives.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-98a1acc elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"98a1acc\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-82e15b8\" data-id=\"82e15b8\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7ffb70c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7ffb70c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p><em>Confrontations<\/em> brought together the work of eight contemporary artists, each with different cultural backgrounds and life experiences, in order to challenge stereotypes, rectify misrepresentations, and confront preconceived prejudices and biases. Works by Chila Kumari Burman, Claire Collison, Mary Duffy, Roshini Kempadoo, Shaheen Merali, Elizabeth Rowe, Lesley Sanderson and Nina Saunders, addressed trans- and gender discrimination; disability rights; the exoticisation of racialised bodies and Euro-centric perceptions of the world. Including the works by Burman and Kempadoo that were exhibited in <em>Confrontations<\/em>, which are now held in the Walsall collection, <em>The World that Belongs to Us<\/em> echoes and reexamines the ways that the 1993 exhibition challenged normative histories and gave space to often maligned and marginalised voices. The artists included in <em>Confrontations<\/em> were able to address the complexities of their identities, while audiences were encouraged to find affinities between themselves and the very different subject positions on display. For Jacques Rangasamy, \u201cThe artist\u2019s grievances have unique and individual resonances, but their visual enunciation in the work displays an openness to affinities: those who find in them an echo of their own experience might derive support and inspiration as well\u201d.<sup>17<\/sup> In its attempt to break down divisions between <em>us<\/em> and <em>them<\/em>, <em>Confrontations<\/em> seems, in retrospect, to build on Stuart Hall\u2019s call to challenge \u201cbinary systems of representation\u201d and the constructed boundaries that delineate \u201cbelongingness and otherness\u201d.<sup>18<\/sup><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3f866e5 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"3f866e5\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-c723679\" data-id=\"c723679\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-4427511 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"4427511\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-fd14288\" data-id=\"fd14288\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-dbe8ce6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"dbe8ce6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1394\" src=\"https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Chila-Kumari-Singh-Burman-This-Is-Not-Me.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Chila-Kumari-Singh-Burman-This-Is-Not-Me.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Chila-Kumari-Singh-Burman-This-Is-Not-Me-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Chila-Kumari-Singh-Burman-This-Is-Not-Me-735x1024.jpg 735w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Chila-Kumari-Singh-Burman-This-Is-Not-Me-768x1071.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-493a0ae\" data-id=\"493a0ae\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-61db8d2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"61db8d2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"799\" src=\"https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Roshini-Kempadoo-Changing-Spaces.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Roshini-Kempadoo-Changing-Spaces.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Roshini-Kempadoo-Changing-Spaces-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Roshini-Kempadoo-Changing-Spaces-768x614.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2dea96d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2dea96d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p class=\"MsoNormal\">LEFT: Chila Kumari Singh Burman, <em>Body Weapons (This is not Me)<\/em>, 1992, digital images on paper. The New Art Gallery Walsall Permanent Collection. \u00a9 Chila Kumari Singh Burman. All rights reserved, DACS, 2023.\u00a0 RIGHT: Roshini Kempadoo, <em>Changing Spaces<\/em>, (detail), 1993, digital images on board. The New Art Gallery Walsall Permanent Collection. \u00a9 Roshini Kempadoo.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-ffbf865 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"ffbf865\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4070739\" data-id=\"4070739\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-aed2f62 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"aed2f62\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>Although each artist included in <em>Confrontations<\/em> addressed a different stereotype or prejudice in their work, cumulatively, the participation of Chila Kumari Burman, Roshini Kempadoo and Shaheen Merali also confronted expectations about British-Asian identities. Historically, British society has tended to homogenise South Asian communities; indeed, the term <em>South Asian<\/em> is short-hand for a large number of people, spread across the globe with different national allegiances, social classes, religions and castes.<sup>19<\/sup> Born in Liverpool, Burman has described herself as Punjabi-Scouse; Kempadoo is Indo-Guyanese; while Merali was born in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, of Gujarati heritage. The identities of these three artists cross multiple continents. In their work they explore the global interconnections of living in the diaspora, and challenge Eurocentric heteronormative social hierarchies that would keep others in their place. Just as Hall proposed <em>identity<\/em> as a set of negotiations that adapts to the circumstances of global dispersal and settlement, Burman\u2019s self-portraits (above left) and Kempadoo\u2019s photomontages (above right) demonstrate how \u201cDiaspora identities are those which are constantly producing and reproducing themselves anew, through transformation and difference\u201d.<sup>20<\/sup><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3728c63 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"3728c63\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-01a8936\" data-id=\"01a8936\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1690f24 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"1690f24\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"829\" height=\"575\" src=\"https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/southasian-visialarts-festival.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/southasian-visialarts-festival.jpg 829w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/southasian-visialarts-festival-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/southasian-visialarts-festival-768x533.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 829px) 100vw, 829px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-dd349f9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"dd349f9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>South Asian Contemporary Visual Arts Festival<\/em>, 1993, festival programme showing detail of Keith Khan and Ali Mehdi Zaidi, Captives, Walsall Museum and Art Gallery on front cover.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-24cb6e8 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"24cb6e8\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-fec69ec\" data-id=\"fec69ec\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9c22ac8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9c22ac8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>Celebrating this diversity of South Asian diaspora identities, between September and December 1993, sculptor Juginder Lamba curated the <em>South Asian Contemporary Visual Arts Festival<\/em>. The festival exhibited over 50 artists of South Asian descent in 18 venues across the West Midlands, including Birmingham, Coventry, Sandwell, Shropshire, Stafford, Stoke, Walsall, Warwick, Wolverhampton, Worcester. <sup>21<\/sup> However, although celebratory, Lamba explained that the Festival was organised in response to the perceived \u201clack of any significant visual art provision for the large Asian community in the West Midlands and the conspicuous under-representation of the work of artists of South Asian origin in the region\u2019s major venues\u201d.<sup>22<\/sup> The festival profiled the work of British-based artists, working in a range of media, including painting, sculpture, ceramics, textiles, and performance, and whose work addressed both formal concerns and social politics. While Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery staged the large-scale group exhibition, <em>Transition of Riches<\/em> (Sept-Nov 1993), which showcased the work of eight artists, Walsall Museum and Art Gallery staged the ambitious and daring installation, <em>Captives<\/em> (September-October 1993).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-c4784af elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"c4784af\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e4430b9\" data-id=\"e4430b9\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f2bceb3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-toggle\" data-id=\"f2bceb3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"toggle.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle\" role=\"tablist\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-2541\" class=\"elementor-tab-title\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-2541\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon elementor-toggle-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-closed\"><i class=\"fas fa-caret-right\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened\"><i class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened fas fa-caret-up\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"\" class=\"elementor-toggle-title\">View footnotes<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-2541\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-2541\"><p><sup>13<\/sup>\u00a0Tim Youngs, \u201cGurminder Sikand at Mansfield Community Arts Centre\u201d, <em>Stepping Out<\/em>, February 1986, p.11.<br \/><sup>14<\/sup> See Alison Cox with Amarjit Singh, \u201cWalsall Museum and Art Gallery and the Sikh Community: a case study\u201d, in Eilean Hooper-Greenhill (ed.), <em>Cultural Diversity: Developing Museum Audiences in Britian<\/em>, London: Leicester University Press\/ Cassell, 1997, pp.159-167, p.159.<br \/><sup>15<\/sup> For discussion of the curatorial development of <em>Warm and Rich and Fearless<\/em> at Cartwright Hall, see Nima Poovaya-Smith, \u201cAcademic and Public domains: When is a dagger a sword?\u201d, in Eilean Hooper-Greenhill (ed.), <em>Cultural Diversity: Developing Museum Audiences in Britian<\/em>, London: Leicester University Press\/ Cassell, 1997, pp.149-158.<br \/><sup>16<\/sup> Cox with Singh, 1997, p.167.<br \/><sup>17<\/sup>\u00a0Jacques Rangasamy, \u201cConfrontations\u201d, <em>Third Text<\/em>, vol.7, no.22, 1993, pp.99-106, p.99.<br \/><sup>18<\/sup> Hall, 1988, p.269.<br \/><sup>19<\/sup> See Avtar Brah, <em>Cartographies of Diaspora: Contesting Identities,<\/em> London: Routledge, 1996, pp.67\u201383.<br \/><sup>20<\/sup>\u00a0Stuart Hall, \u201cCultural Identity and Diaspora\u201d, in Jonathan Rutherford (ed.), <em>Identity: Community, Culture, Difference,<\/em> London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1990, pp.222-237, p.235.<br \/><sup>21<\/sup> Juginder Lamba, <em>South Asian Contemporary Visual Arts Festival: Final Report<\/em>, July 1994.<br \/><sup>22<\/sup> Lamba, 1994, p.1.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2ac09b7 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"2ac09b7\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-f48715d\" data-id=\"f48715d\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-ba2ecc9 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"ba2ecc9\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-df58733\" data-id=\"df58733\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7d17834 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"7d17834\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"429\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/captives_small.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/captives_small.jpg 429w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/captives_small-215x300.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 429px) 100vw, 429px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-4dcd236\" data-id=\"4dcd236\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-985d1a7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"985d1a7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1300\" height=\"847\" src=\"https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/captives01.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/captives01.jpg 1300w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/captives01-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/captives01-1024x667.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/captives01-768x500.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/captives01-1200x782.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f2d32cf elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f2d32cf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p class=\"MsoNormal\">LEFT: Keith Khan and Ali Mehdi Zaidi, <em>Captives<\/em>, Walsall Museum and Art Gallery, exhibition poster\u00a0 |\u00a0 RIGHT: <i>Captives, <\/i>Installation view. Digitised slides from Walsall\u2019s archives.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-fd47e59 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"fd47e59\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-35d6537\" data-id=\"35d6537\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6244135 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6244135\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p><em>Captives<\/em> was a collaboration between Keith Khan and Ali Mehdi Zaidi, in which live tropical fish from different continents were exhibited in custom-made tanks within the gallery. The fish were accompanied by wood carvings and textiles from Pakistan, and calligraphy and photography. Placed in different tanks, the captive fish were \u201csegregated according to their geographical origins\u201d,<sup>23<\/sup> and alongside the other artworks and objects, audiences were invited to consider how global cultures are catalogued and displayed in Britain according to colonial systems of classification. It is important to note that eighteenth and nineteenth century scientific systems for classifying and cataloguing the natural world were developed in tandem with colonial systems of exploitation and extraction.<sup>24<\/sup> Celebrated botanists such as Carl Linnaeus \u2013 who developed classificatory schemes for people as well as plants \u2013 are today regarded as \u201cagents of empire\u201d.<sup>25<\/sup> The presence of the live fish in the gallery refuted the notion that foreign, exotic, specimens are static and unchanging. \u00a0During the exhibition, artists Nina Edge and Bhajan Hunjan assisted visitors in creating contributions to the installation, reinforcing the point that art, culture, and indeed, life, is in a constant state of transformation.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-c1b5657 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"c1b5657\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a624417\" data-id=\"a624417\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b1c2a5a elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"b1c2a5a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1300\" height=\"847\" src=\"https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/captives02.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/captives02.jpg 1300w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/captives02-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/captives02-1024x667.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/captives02-768x500.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/captives02-1200x782.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7a4bb6d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7a4bb6d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><i>Captives, <\/i>Installation view (detail) Walsall Museum and Art Gallery, 1993. Digitised slides from Walsall\u2019s archives.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-bb444fd elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"bb444fd\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-07d7637\" data-id=\"07d7637\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-0b5d316 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"0b5d316\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-75964f9\" data-id=\"75964f9\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-270dc09 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"270dc09\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"627\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/splash.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/splash.jpg 627w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/splash-209x300.jpg 209w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-a78c3d5\" data-id=\"a78c3d5\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b1b9ec3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"b1b9ec3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"608\" height=\"841\" src=\"https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Shanti-Panchal.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Shanti-Panchal.jpg 608w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Shanti-Panchal-217x300.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b6a1dbc elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b6a1dbc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>LEFT: <em>Splash! Contemporary Watercolour Painting<\/em>, 1995, exhibition poster. RIGHT:\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: -0.27px;\">Shanti Panchal,\u00a0<\/span><em style=\"font-size: 10px; letter-spacing: -0.27px; text-align: left;\">Mother and Baby,\u00a0<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: -0.27px;\">1991. The New Art Gallery Walsall Permanent Collection. \u00a9 Shanti Panchal.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-9b1f12a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"9b1f12a\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-9b9ef79\" data-id=\"9b9ef79\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-51a7c0e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"51a7c0e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-size: inherit; text-align: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.015em;\">In her landmark essay, <\/span><em style=\"letter-spacing: -0.015em;\">The Work Between Us<\/em><span style=\"font-size: inherit; text-align: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.015em;\">, of 1997, the artist and critic Jean Fisher observed that during the 1990s diaspora art had become entangled with identity politics, often to its detriment. She noted that \u201cart is currently ensnared in debates of cultural difference and identity that are noticeably lacking in critical discussion about the work itself\u201d.<\/span><sup style=\"letter-spacing: -0.015em;\">26<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: inherit; text-align: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.015em;\">\u00a0Arguably, <\/span><em style=\"letter-spacing: -0.015em;\">Splash! Contemporary Watercolour Painting<\/em><span style=\"font-size: inherit; text-align: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.015em;\"> staged at Walsall Museum and Art Gallery in 1985 was one of a handful of exhibitions during the 1990s that actively sought to prioritise the work of art on its own terms. Exhibiting three South Asian diaspora artists, Amal Ghosh, Lallitha Jawahirilal and Shanti Panchal, alongside the Scottish painter Elizabeth Blackadder, and West-Midlands based artist Patrick Cox, <\/span><em style=\"letter-spacing: -0.015em;\">Splash! <\/em><span style=\"font-size: inherit; text-align: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.015em;\">sought to challenge dismissive expectations of watercolour painting as \u201cpretty flowers and pretty landscapes\u201d.<\/span><sup style=\"letter-spacing: -0.015em;\">27<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: inherit; text-align: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.015em;\">\u00a0The exhibition explored the different ways that each artist utilised watercolour paint and the specific properties of the medium. In so doing, the exhibition reorientated interpretations of work by Ghosh, Jawahirilal and Panchal away from identity politics, and towards each of the artist\u2019s painterly processes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><a href=\"#_ednref1\" name=\"_edn1\"><\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-aa3d95a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"aa3d95a\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-64d7a4f\" data-id=\"64d7a4f\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-c49e221 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"c49e221\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-48cf8ec\" data-id=\"48cf8ec\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7d93a01 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"7d93a01\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"652\" height=\"479\" src=\"https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Lallitha-Jawahirilal.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Lallitha-Jawahirilal.jpg 652w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Lallitha-Jawahirilal-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 652px) 100vw, 652px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cebc25f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"cebc25f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Lallitha Jawahirilal, <em>After I got Divine Love and Steadied Down<\/em>, 1991. The New Art Gallery Walsall Permanent Collection. \u00a9 Lallitha Jawahirilal.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-cfbbfc1 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"cfbbfc1\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e8e20e7\" data-id=\"e8e20e7\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-604b3a5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"604b3a5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>At first glance, it would appear that the paintings by Panchal and Jawahirilal exhibited in <em>Splash!, <\/em>and subsequently acquired for the Walsall collection, are very different. Panchal\u2019s figurative painting is naturalistic, and precise. The titular mother and baby sit on a sofa and look to their right. The alert gaze of the baby suggests that something, or someone, out of frame has caught their attention. In comparison, Jawahirilal\u2019s painting, <em>After I got Divine Love and Steadied Down<\/em>, 1991 comprises gestural ribbons of colour, through which a child-like stick-figure seems to be falling, or perhaps sliding.<\/p><p>Early in his career, Panchal developed a mode of working whereby \u201cwatercolour is not just painted onto the surface, but injected into the paper\u201d,<sup>28<\/sup>\u00a0to achieve areas of saturated colour. While the focal point of his painting is the two figures, <em>Mother and Baby, <\/em>may also be regarded as a formal study in the arrangement of large masses of colour and empty space. Panchal\u2019s composition seems to balance abstract elements with the figurative to convey nuanced sensibilities. Despite the differences in their handling of paint, Jawahirilal\u2019s watercolour also explores the ability of colour to convey emotion and feeling, and the interplay between figurative and abstract elements. While Panchal\u2019s dense saturated colour creates a sense of intensity, Jawahirilal has harnessed watercolour\u2019s fluidity and opacity to create a work that has a lightness and dream-like quality.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-ccc6d91 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"ccc6d91\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-28539a4\" data-id=\"28539a4\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fb33283 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"fb33283\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"941\" src=\"https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Gurminder-Sikand.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Gurminder-Sikand.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Gurminder-Sikand-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Gurminder-Sikand-1024x642.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Gurminder-Sikand-768x482.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Gurminder-Sikand-1200x753.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2dd9eff elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2dd9eff\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Gurminder Sikand, <em>Maidens, Trees and Deities <\/em>at Walsall Museum and Art Gallery, installation view, 1995. Digitised slides from Walsall\u2019s archives.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-c771e20 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"c771e20\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a1c2a6b\" data-id=\"a1c2a6b\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-847cdbc elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"847cdbc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>While <em>Splash! <\/em>was on display the main gallery space at Walsall, Gurminder Sikand\u2019s solo exhibition of new paintings, <em>Maidens, Trees and Deities<\/em> was staged concurrently in the smaller gallery known as <em>The Other Space<\/em>. Sikand\u2019s exhibition comprised watercolour and gouache paintings on paper, many of which depicted nude female figures seated or standing in semi-rural landscapes. Much of the critical writing about Sikand\u2019s work during the 1990s sought to link her practice to the Mithila artists of Bihar, and nineteenth century Kalighat paintings.<sup>29<\/sup><a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\"><\/a> While these reference points were, by the artist\u2019s admission important to her artistic development,<sup>30<\/sup><a href=\"#_edn2\" name=\"_ednref2\"><\/a> the repeated prioritisation of South Asian visual traditions in writing about Sikand\u2019s work left little scope for other routes of interpretation. For example, there has been relatively little discussion of Sikand\u2019s depiction of women and trees as eco-feminist statements, despite her known interest in the non-violent protests of the women-led Chipko environmental movement in northern India.<sup>31<\/sup><a href=\"#_edn3\" name=\"_ednref3\"><\/a><\/p><p>Where are all the British Asian artists? The generation of artists who emerged in the 1980s and 90s discussed here, and those included in <em>The World that Belongs to Us,<\/em> continue to work and exhibit; examples of their artworks are held (albeit in small quantities) in public, civic and national collections across the UK. So, I\u2019d like to conclude with a different set of questions: Where is the writing about these artists? Who is undertaking the research? And how are their works exhibited and historicised today? This essay has given a brief overview of a handful of artists and a selection of exhibitions, but there is much more work to be done, and many more stories to tell. By placing South Asian diaspora art in Britain made during the 1980s and 90s in intergenerational and transnational dialogues emergent in the diasporic imaginaries of USA and Canada, <em>The World that Belongs to Us<\/em> is an important step in that journey.<a href=\"#_ednref1\" name=\"_edn1\"><\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-a60b3fa elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"a60b3fa\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-28e7c19\" data-id=\"28e7c19\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cb328a8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"cb328a8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Alice Correia<\/h3>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-e36e9cf elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"e36e9cf\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-d2dddda\" data-id=\"d2dddda\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-51053ec elementor-widget elementor-widget-toggle\" data-id=\"51053ec\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"toggle.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle\" role=\"tablist\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-8491\" class=\"elementor-tab-title\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-8491\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon elementor-toggle-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-closed\"><i class=\"fas fa-caret-right\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened\"><i class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened fas fa-caret-up\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"\" class=\"elementor-toggle-title\">View footnotes<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-8491\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-8491\"><p><sup>23<\/sup>\u00a0Anon. <em>Captives<\/em>, exhibition introduction\/ poster, Walsall Museum and Art Gallery, 1993.<br \/><sup>24<\/sup> See Ros Gray and Shela Sheikh, \u201cThe Wretched Earth: Botanical Conflicts and Artistic Interventions Introduction\u201d, <em>Third Text<\/em>, vol.32, nos.2-3, 2018, pp.163-175, p.165.<br \/><sup>25<\/sup> Londa Schiebinger, <em>Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World<\/em>, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007, p.11.<br \/><sup>26<\/sup> Jean Fisher, \u201cThe Work Between Us (1997)\u201d, in Jean Fisher, <em>Vampire in the Text<\/em>, London: Iniva, pp.266-269, p.266.<br \/><sup>27<\/sup> Shanti Panchal, \u201cPortrait of the artist\u201d, <em>The Artist\u2019s and Illustrator\u2019s Magazine<\/em>, April 1990, p.20-23, p.20<br \/><sup>28<\/sup> Panchal, 1990, p.20<br \/><sup>29<\/sup> See for example, <em>Fine Material for a Dream\u2026?: A Reappraisal of Orientalism; 19th and 20th Century Fine Art and Popular Culture juxtaposed with paintings, video and photography by contemporary artists<\/em>, exhibition catalogue, Preston: Harris Museum and Art Gallery, 1992, p.6.<br \/><sup>30<\/sup> See Gurminder Sikand, \u201cThe Patterns of Culture I Currently Wear\u201d, in Ghosh and Lamba, 2001, pp.214-217.<br \/><sup>31<\/sup> It is hoped that Sikand\u2019s inclusion in the exhibition <em>Re\/Sisters: A Lens on Gender and Ecology<\/em>, Barbican Art Gallery, 5 October 2023-14 January 2024, with rectify this. See Alice Correia, \u201cOn Environmental Catastrophe and (Not) Exhibiting Black British Feminist Art\u201d, <em>Wasafiri<\/em>, forthcoming Spring 2024.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-b778f49 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"b778f49\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1c1883c\" data-id=\"1c1883c\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6ad5198 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6ad5198\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Biography<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0ee6b6f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0ee6b6f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>Dr Alice Correia is a curator and art historian. She co-curated the major exhibition <em>A Tall Order!: Rochdale Art Gallery in the 1980s<\/em> at Touchstones, Rochdale Feb-May, 2023. Her edited anthology, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguin.co.uk\/books\/444972\/what-is-black-art\/9780141998213\">What is Black Art?<\/a> Writings on artists of African, Asian and Caribbean Heritage in Britain<\/em>, 1981-1989, published by Penguin in 2022, and her essay, &#8220;Representing South Asian Women in Britain&#8221; is included in the exhibition catalogue for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/whats-on\/tate-britain\/women-in-revolt\"><em>Women in Revolt<\/em><\/a> at Tate Britain, Nov 2023- April 2024. She is Chair of Trustees of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thirdtext.org\/\"><em>Third Text<\/em><\/a> and co-Chair of the British Art Network\u2019s Black British Art Research Group. She is currently a Research Fellow at the Decolonizing Arts Institute, University of the Arts, London.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-15f5e0b elementor-widget-divider--separator-type-pattern elementor-widget-divider--no-spacing elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"15f5e0b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\" style=\"--divider-pattern-url: url(&quot;data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=&#039;http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg&#039; preserveAspectRatio=&#039;xMidYMid meet&#039; overflow=&#039;visible&#039; height=&#039;100%&#039; viewBox=&#039;0 0 126 26&#039; fill=&#039;black&#039; stroke=&#039;none&#039;%3E%3Cpath d=&#039;M3,10.2c2.6,0,2.6,2,2.6,3.2S4.4,16.5,3,16.5s-3-1.4-3-3.2S0.4,10.2,3,10.2z M18.8,10.2c1.7,0,3.2,1.4,3.2,3.2s-1.4,3.2-3.2,3.2c-1.7,0-3.2-1.4-3.2-3.2S17,10.2,18.8,10.2z M34.6,10.2c1.5,0,2.6,1.4,2.6,3.2s-0.5,3.2-1.9,3.2c-1.5,0-3.4-1.4-3.4-3.2S33.1,10.2,34.6,10.2z M50.5,10.2c1.7,0,3.2,1.4,3.2,3.2s-1.4,3.2-3.2,3.2c-1.7,0-3.3-0.9-3.3-2.6S48.7,10.2,50.5,10.2z M66.2,10.2c1.5,0,3.4,1.4,3.4,3.2s-1.9,3.2-3.4,3.2c-1.5,0-2.6-0.4-2.6-2.1S64.8,10.2,66.2,10.2z M82.2,10.2c1.7,0.8,2.6,1.4,2.6,3.2s-0.1,3.2-1.6,3.2c-1.5,0-3.7-1.4-3.7-3.2S80.5,9.4,82.2,10.2zM98.6,10.2c1.5,0,2.6,0.4,2.6,2.1s-1.2,4.2-2.6,4.2c-1.5,0-3.7-0.4-3.7-2.1S97.1,10.2,98.6,10.2z M113.4,10.2c1.2,0,2.2,0.9,2.2,3.2s-0.1,3.2-1.3,3.2s-3.1-1.4-3.1-3.2S112.2,10.2,113.4,10.2z&#039;\/%3E%3C\/svg%3E&quot;);\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-634cacb elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"634cacb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Bibliography<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5dcf769 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5dcf769\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Publications<\/span><\/p><p>Correia, A. (ed.) (2022) <em>What is Black Art?<\/em>. Penguin Books Ltd.<br \/>Aikens, N. and Robles, E. (eds.) (2019) <em>The Place Is Here: The Work of Black Artists in 1980s Britain<\/em>. Sternberg Press<br \/>Reckitt, H. (2018) <em>The Art of Feminism: Images that Shaped the Fight for Equality<\/em>. Tate Publishing<\/p><p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Articles &amp; Essays:<\/span><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.gold.ac.uk\/animatingarchives\/consistently-present-alice-correia-on-south-asian-women-artists\/\">Correia, A. (2020) Consistently Present: Alice Correia on South Asian Women Artists, Animating Archives.<\/a>\u00a0<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/14714787.2020.1760128\">Correia, A. (2020) \u2018Picturing Resistance and Resilience: South Asian Identities in the Work of Chila Kumari Burman\u2019, Visual Culture in Britain, 21(2), pp 199 \u2013 226.<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/56010250\/Researching_Exhibitions_of_South_Asian_Women_Artists_in_Britain_in_the_1980s\">Correia, A. (2019) \u2018Researching Exhibitions of South Asian Women Artists in Britain in the 1980s\u2019, British Art Studies, Issue 13.<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/09528822.2017.1371917\">Correia, A. (2017) \u2018Diasporic Returns: Reading Partition in Contemporary Art\u2019, Third Text, 31(2-3), pp 321 \u2013 340.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-823d7fb elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"823d7fb\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-0be81e2\" data-id=\"0be81e2\" 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