Black History Month. 2021
BLACK HISTORY
A series of prints honouring those people and events in the history of the African diaspora.
“SILENCE ENSURES THAT HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF”
Erwin Gruwell
THE BIRTH OF A NATION
Silk screen print on copper foil acetate
Print size: 42 x 30cm
Paper size: 56 x 38cm
Stills from the 1915 Hollywood silent film, ‘The Birth of a Nation’, originally called ‘The Clansman’, it was the first motion picture to be screened in the White House, viewed there by President Woodrow Wilson, his family, and members of his cabinet. It has been acknowledged as the inspiration for the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan and known as the “The most reprehensibly racist film in Hollywood history”, The Washington Post. Retrieved June 7, 2021.
Unframed limited edition and one off prints available from the shop
THE HAVES AND HAVE NOTS
Silk screen print
Print size: 42 x 30cm
Paper size: 50 x 35cm
The fall of British colonial empire. Kenya Uprising 1952-60. The British detained more than 160,000 in concentration camps in a vain attempt to suppress the independence movement. Executing and torturing more than 90,000 Kenyans in the last days of British colonial empire including carrying out civilian massacres.
Unframed limited edition and one off bespoke framed prints available from the shop
“SILENCE ENSURES THAT
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF”
Silk screen print
Print size: 60 x 42cm
Paper size: 76 x 56cm
Images in this screen print show the British suppressing the Kenyan Uprising of 1952-60 and of the ‘Black Power’ movement being suppressed following the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X, who’s aim was to achieve self - determination for black people in the USA.
Unframed limited edition and one off bespoke framed prints available from the shop
WATCHING RODNEY KING 03/03/1991
Silk screen print
Print size: 60 x 42cm
Paper size: 76 x 56cm
Stills taken from film footage of the LAPD brutally beating black American Rodney King. The footage shows an unarmed King on the ground being beaten for allegedly evading arrest after a high-speed car chase. Four officers were eventually tried on charges of use of excessive force; of these, three were acquitted, and the jury failed to reach a verdict on the fourth.
Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Unframed limited edition and one off bespoke framed prints available from the shop
AT LEAST TEN POLICE SHOOT DEAD LONE BLACK KNIFEMAN
Silk screen print with Pantone® paper
Print size: 60 x 42cm
Paper size: 76 x 56cm
Friday November 4, 2015 newspaper cutting of an online video showing a ‘at least TEN police shoot dead lone black knifeman’ in San Francisco, USA.
Unframed one off bespoke print available from the shop
OVER & OVER: AT LEAST TEN POLICE SHOOT DEAD LONE BLACK KNIFEMAN
Silk screen print scroll assemblage
Print size: 60 x 42cm
Paper size: 550 x 50cm
THE HURRICANE
Silk screen print
Print size: 420 x 297mm
Paper size: 560 x 760mm
Rubin “Hurricane” Carter (May 6, 1937 – April 20, 2014) was an American-Canadian middleweight boxer, wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for murder, until released following a petition of habeas corpus after almost 20 years in prison. Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Unframed limited edition and one off bespoke framed prints available from the shop
Collage
Screen printing
Sculpture
The memory project
Walking with ghosts
The things we throw away
Black history
Walking chairs project
Waste collection
The matteress project