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Title: 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).

2
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).

3
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

4
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

5
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)
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