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Honouring Black History Month 2021

A series of silk screen and digital prints celebrating Black History Month, honouring those people and events in the history of the African diaspora.

“SILENCE ENSURES THAT HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF”
Erwin Gruwell

Images in this series of prints include the British suppressing the Kenyan uprising of 1952 - 60. The ‘Black Power’ movement following the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X, who’s aim was to achieve self - determination for black people in the USA. Stills taken from the 1915 Hollywood silent film ‘Birth of a Nation’. Originally called ‘The Clansman’; it was the first motion picture to be screened in the White House, viewed there by President Woodrow Wilson, his family, and members of his cabinet. And images of Jacob Blake and other victims of police injustice in the USA.

United against racism, prejudice, discrimination or antagonism by an individual, community or institution against a person or people on the basis of their colour or membership of a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that’s a minority or marginalised.

Prints:
1. SILENCE ENSURES THAT HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF
2. BIRTH OF A NATION
3. WATCHING RODNEY KING 03/03/1991
4. JACOB BLAKE - THE COST OF LIFE?
5. THE HAVES AND HAVE NOTS
6. AT LEAST TEN POLICE SHOOT DEAD LONE BLACK KNIFEMAN
7. OVER & OVER