exhibition

Blanc Noir

Artists Lydia Marie Julien, Cathy Lomax, Stephen Davids, Sarah Doyle

13.Oct.07 - 18.Nov.07
Fri-Sun 1-6

Transition Gallery
Unit 25a Regent Studios 8 Andrews Road
London E8 4QN
020 7254 0045
transition@huntergather.com
www.transitiongallery.co.uk
Tube Bethnal Green; BR Cambridge Heath, Hackney / Bethnal Green

Blanc Noir was devised by artists Stephen Davids and Cathy Lomax to investigate the significant contribution that the Afro-Caribbean diaspora has made to contemporary British culture. It examines the way that in Britain this culture, rather than being seen as an exotic enclave of otherness is becoming intrinsically meshed within the mainstream.

Blanc Noir features a mixed group of artists who map this process in a counter-intuitive and highly personal way by both overturning and celebrating stereotypes from Sarah Doyle's MySpace girls with rap star monikers to Cathy Lomax's Afro paintings to Gary O'Connor's Rock Against Racism inspired audio.