Contemporary Art

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Contemporary Art

• Creative expression in visual art currently being
  produced by artists who work in a modernist and
  postmodernist idiom in London today. It includes
  various kinds of visual representations, such as
  paintings, sculpture, photography, video, film,
  electronic media, Montages and installations etc
  (Third Text).

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Representation of Identity

• It is the process by which members of a culture
  use language broadly defined as any system which
  deploys signs, any signifying system to produce
  meaning (Hall, 1997, p.61).The process of
  representation the manner in which meaning is
  constructed and conveyed through language and
  objects (Hall, 1997, p.153).

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Informal Art Education

• teaching by artists and/or arts organisations in
  informal education settings, such as museums,
  galleries, community centres, youth centres.
• Some of the artists projects in this research
  also took place in formal settings i.e. schools

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Plan of Action

• To present some research data about 3 women
  artists
• To explore ways in which ethnicity and gender
  shape their identities and art practices
• To engage in discussion with the audience about
  what contemporary art can tell us about British
  cultural identity

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Women Artists in London, UK
Misako Okuyama Japanese
Teri Hilton Afro Caribbean
Thurle Wright English
Meera Sharon Chauda Asian British
Jennifer Lewis Afro Caribbean
Fatima Djabri North African (French)