Collecting
An exploration of the contribution of black visual art to the cultural landscape. Drawings paintings, prints and photographs by artists of the black diaspora.
Find out moreCollaborating
with museums to interrogate object and art collections in innovative ways. Exploring hidden social histories through creative visual practice. Excavating and preserving evidence of artists’ practice
Discover moreCurating
Supporting artists practice, interpreting and revealing creative contemporary visual art collections, enabling distinct areas of international excellence in contemporary arts research
Reveal moreSharing
information with larger partnership organisations and smaller groups committed to the development of new ways of writing about, talking about, making and showing contemporary art
Learn moreInvestigating
investigating British newspapers and their representation of black people
Uncover moreAn interdisciplinary visual art research project
based in the Centre for Contemporary Art (School of Art, Design and Performance) at the University of Central Lancashire. We are building on the success of our distinct areas of international excellence in contemporary art research. The project is led by Lubaina Himid MBE Professor of Contemporary Art and Christine Eyene Guild Research Fellow
- Talk with Turner prize winner Lubaina Himid & Claudette Johnson, Rugby Art Gallery and Museum on 25th May 2018 7:00 pm
- Collecting As Practice – Christine Eyene speaking at Delfina Foundation on 15th March 2018 6:30 pm
- Making Histories Visible – relaunch event on 15th March 2018 1:00 pm
- Hard Times exhibition at the Harris on 2nd March 2018
- Hard Times at the Harris Museum & Gallery on 1st March 2018 6:00 pm