During the marketing stage of a solo show I held on the South Bank, a friend contacted a very well-known and respected gallery to invite them to the private view on my behalf. Their response, I quote ‘the problem with promoting young artists is that they have no history. So who her parents are and what […]
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Grace Barber-Plentie – The Curator Envisioning a Fat Utopia
Depictions of fat women in TV & film have rarely done them any justice. Whether it’s the mockery of fat Black women seen in Tyler Perry’s Madea and Eddie Murphy’s ‘Norbit’ or various fat characters sidelined to the funny best friend (à la Kim in Moesha), the representation of fatness in TV and film has […]
AZ Magazine Creative Fund 2020 Recipients
After the success of the Creative Fund fundraiser and the hundreds of applications AZ Magazine received, five recipients have been selected. They will each be awarded £1,000 to create a work of art. In our continued collaboration with DJ Mag they’ll be sponsoring and mentoring one recipient, Xilhu Ese – to create a Dance music […]