Reading Time: 3 minutes “I want to provide positive representations of people of colour and people from under-resourced areas,” says Deal, who dedicates his practice to uplifting cultural representations of his community
Identity Politics
Reading Time: 2 minutes “Their stories are also my story,” says Çimen, a self-taught photographer whose work explores the experience of young Islamic women in Turkey
Reading Time: 3 minutes In place of this year’s Turner Prize, Liz Johnson Artur is one of ten artists awarded a one-off bursary £10,000. Here, we revisit an interview with the Ghanaian-Russian photographer, about her expansive archive of the richness and complexity of black British life
Reading Time: 8 minutes As her solo exhibition, Painting with Light, reflects on the richness of Smith’s oeuvre, the artist discusses her practice and the irony of looking back now
Reading Time: 3 minutes Unbeknown to his parents, who are unaware of his sexuality, Xu returned home to create temporary installations exploring his identity in a space that has historically repressed it
Reading Time: 3 minutes A new exhibition in London presents the work of seven contemporary Chinese artists, raising questions about gender, beauty, censorship, and the concept of diaspora