Led by Amna Malik, lecturer at The Slade School of Fine Art

Tuesdays 27 September 2005 – 18 October 2005, 18.30–20.30

In 1989 The Other Story opened at the Hayward Gallery. Curated by Rasheed Araeen, it attempted to address the unacknowledged presence of black artists in Britain. With Steve McQueen winning the 1999 Turner Prize and Chris Ofili representing Britain at the last Venice Biennale, the profile of black British artists has never been higher.

This course examines the visibility of contemporary black and Asian artists from a variety of angles by focusing on the work of an older generation of artists, like Francis de Souza and Frank Bowling, who came to Britain in the 1950s. It considers the importance of issues of sexuality within the black art movements of the 1980s and the feminist and gay challenge posed by Lubaina Himid, Sutapa Biswas and Isaac Julien. Fundamental to the course is an examination of black aesthetics and the questions they raise about British Modernism, past and present.

Tate Britain  Duffield Room
£45 (£35 concessions), booking required