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Wangechi Mutu explores the violence and misrepresentation that women, particularly black women, experience in the contemporary world. She has spoken of her art—which includes sculpture and installations with similar coiled, hybrid imagery—as using the aesthetic of rejection and wretchedness to explore the hopeful or sublime.

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Victoria Miro is well known for their work from established artists around the world and upcoming artists in the UK. Their goal is to nurture the best talent from new generations of artists and promote great pieces from those already established.

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Nnenna Okore is an artist who works both in Nigeria and the United States. Her largely abstract sculptures are inspired by textures, colors and forms within her immediate milieu.

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Jenkins Johnson Gallery was founded in 1996 by Karen Jenkins-Johnson, who is a part of the small but influential group of black gallerists. This gallery specializes in contemporary art pieces and they strive to create space for underrepresented artists, curators and thinkers.

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Born in 1975 in Nigeria, Péju Alatise is a artist, poet, and a writer. She experiments with various materials and techniques as a medium to analyze various socio-political issues.

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Since it was founded, the Aicon Gallery focuses on non-Western modern and contemporary artwork, especially those created in South Asia. They hope to help artists understand their vision and ambition in this ever-changing world.

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Sokari Douglas Camp was born in Buguma, Rivers State, Nigeria.  Sokari works intuitively and on her own, she draws ideas and works on the scale suggested by her drawings. She works with sheet steel and has recently started working with recycled  oil barrels. These barrels are all over the world and familiar . Oil is a big feature in Sokari’s work because she comes from the Niger Delta where oil is the main produce. Her place of birth is unsafe to return to because of bad governance and pollution.

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The October Gallery presents a rich diversity of art from both local London artists, poets, and writers as well as artists from around the world. Over the last forty years, they have presented cutting-edge contemporary artwork since its founding and collaborate with their partners to create unique programs.

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A critically acclaimed mixed-media artist, El Anatsui gained worldwide recognition in the early 2000s for his shimmering, monumental wall hangings, visual feasts rich with associations to Africa, Europe, and America. These expansive sheets, hung in undulating swags and blocky folds, are composed of countless bits of brightly colored metal, the salvaged caps of liquor bottles, which Anatsui and his team form into shapes, then link together with copper wire. A cross between painting, tapestry, and sculpture, the hangings grew out of his earlier investigations into re-purposing scrap materials, with their attendant cultural associations.

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The October Gallery presents a rich diversity of art from both local London artists, poets, and writers as well as artists from around the world. Over the last forty years, they have presented cutting-edge contemporary artwork since its founding and collaborate with their partners to create unique programs.

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Anthonia Nneji is a visual artist (painter) whose paternal forebears are traditional carvers and masquerade carriers. She holds a degree (B.A hons) from the University of Lagos, Nigeria. She is an impressionist moving towards expressionism with paintings that depicts the pain the female body go through. Her paintings are didactic; they address health and moral issues in the society, making her do Art not just for Art sake but Art for Life’s sake.

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Rele was created to boost the connections between Nigeria, Africa, and international art worlds as its own international reputation has gained recognition. Their two spaces helps to create a symbolic purpose between the public and emerging artists.

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Saïdou is a self-taught visual artist (photographer, videographer, installer and painter).  Through painting, photography, video or installations, Dicko transforms the representation of forms giving life to visual phenomena, to physical and psychological events of light, uniting the two extreme values ​​that are at the heart of black and white contrast. He finds pleasure in bringing together the opposites to talk to us about equality, union, maternal love, freedom, humanity, and much more.

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Afikaris was recently opened in 2018 which focuses on contemporary art from African artists. Their mission is to become a reference gallery for artists in the community to learn what Contemporary African art and African diaspora looks like.

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Richly colorful, Beverly McIver’s autobiographical paintings form a chronicle of her life: her struggle with her African-American identity or her deep love for her mentally disabled sister, for whom she is caretaker. McIver does not shy away from the intimate or the revealing.

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The Betty Cuningham gallery, named after the owner, was founded in 2004. This gallery mainly seeks American artists and specializes in sculptures and contemporary works.

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Patrick Quarm grew up in postcolonial Ghana which was marked with historical sites tracing the memory of imperialism. His paintings function as a form of cultural archeology, wherein he seeks to excavate the layers of history that have been deposited over time. This is evident in the processes of layering, cutting and erasure.

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Kara Elizabeth Walker is an American contemporary painter, silhouettist, print-maker, installation artist, and film-maker who explores race, gender, sexuality, violence, and identity in her work.

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Often provocative and humorous, Kara Walker's work explores the tensions and power plays of racial and gender relations. Walker's work engages with historical narratives and the ways in which these stories have been suppressed, distorted and falsified. This exhibition extends her exploration of the brutalising histories of colonialism and slavery, and the political and psychological consequences that accompanies identity formation in contexts of oppression and violence.