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The Rita Keegan Archive (Project)
Exhibition
The Rita Keegan Archive (Project)
15 Aug 2020 – 13 Sep 2020
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 21:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 18:00
Address
- 65 Peckham Road
- London
- SE5 8UH
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 36, 436
- Oval, Vauxhall Underground Stations
- Peckham Rye, Denmark Hill Overground Stations
Artist, lecturer and archivist Rita Keegan’s practice reflects the intersection of new media experimentation, feminist practice and the Black Arts Movement of the 1980s.
About
In 1985, Keegan established the Women Artists of Colour Index (WOCI), a unique collection of slides and papers that provides a vital historical resource for contemporary discussions of race and gender.
This display in the SLG’s Archive room features Keegan’s personal papers, offering a rare opportunity to see a range of materials and ephemera from the Black British Art scene spanning the 1980s to the early 2000s.
UPCOMING EXHIBITION
The presentation in the SLG’s Archive room precedes an upcoming exhibition by the artist in Galleries 2, 3 and 4 of the Fire Station between 6 May – 28 June.
Keegan’s installation works combine audiovisual material with textiles, 2D multimedia works, and experiential media such as scent, to explore memory, history, dress and adornment. She also draws on her extensive family archive, a photographic record of a black middle class Canadian family from the 1890s to the present day.
