Sonia Boyce in ENTANGLED PASTS, Royal Academy of the Arts, London
Sonia Boyce’s work Lay Back, Keep Quiet and Think of What Made Britain So Great, (1986) is included among over 100 major contemporary and historic works featured in ‘Entangled Pasts, 1768 – Now, Art, Colonialism and Change’, at the Royal Academy of the Arts, London.
The exhibition explores connections between art associated with the Royal Academy of Arts and Britain’s colonial histories and forms part of a wider conversation about art and its role in shaping narratives of empire, enslavement, resistance, abolition and colonialism.
Artworks by leading contemporary British artists of the African, Caribbean and South Asian diasporas, including Sonia Boyce will be on display alongside works by artists from the past 250 years including Joshua Reynolds, J.M.W. Turner and John Singleton Copley.
'Entangled Pasts' engages around 50 artists connected to the RA to explore themes of migration, exchange, artistic traditions, identity and belonging.
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Entangled Pasts, 1768 – Now, Art, Colonialism and Change
Royal Academy of the Arts,
Burlington House,
London, W1J 0BD
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