Workshop
Body and Object – An experimental life drawing class
27 Apr 2017
Arts at the Old Fire Station
Oxford, United Kingdom
Exhibition
Shades of Black
16 Mar 2017 – 29 Apr 2017
Event times
Open Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 6pm.
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 40 George Street
- Oxford
- OX1 2AQ
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Located immediately around the corner from Gloucester Green, Oxford's main bus and coach station
- 7 minutes walk from Oxford Train Station
Event map
Finding space and visibility for back people drives Sonia Latchford’s art.
About
Her portraits are specifically of black people. She plays on stereotypes of black people in western culture to bring her subjects into three dimensions, showing their lived experience. The black body is not only recognised, but celebrated.
The portraits in this exhibition were painted with just a few tools, and with the same five-pigment palette.
Each image begins in the studio with Latchford photographing her sitter. They aren’t told how to pose or sit, just given a chair and asked to make their own choices. Latchford paints people from her own life, her friends, relatives and colleagues, but also strangers from the street. Her photographs provide the starting point for her sketches – then she sets them aside to work from memory.
