- Sonia Boyce
Sonia Dawn Boyce born in
London in 1962 is a BritishAfro-Caribbean artist, living and working inLondon . She studied atStourbridge College in the West Midlands. She works across a range of media including photography, installation and text. [Rebecca Fortnum, "Contemporary British Women Artists: In Their Own Words", I.B.Tauris, 2007, p113. ISBN 1845112245] She came to prominence as part of theBlack British cultural renaissance of the 1980s. [Kwesi Owusu, "Black British Culture and Society: A Text-Reader", Routledge, 1999, p4. ISBN 0415178460] Her work also referencesfeminism . [Peggy Phelan and Helena Reckitt, 'art and feminism'. London. Phaidon, 2001]Her works are held in the collection of
Tate Modern .Sonia Boyce was awarded an
MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List 2007, for services to art. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/england/london/6757091.stm news.bbc.co.uk] , accessed September 6, 2007.]References
External links
* inIVA [http://www.iniva.org/archive/person/15 Iniva on Sonia Boyce]
* National Portrait Gallery [http://www.npg.org.uk/devotional/sonia_boyce.asp National Portrait Gallery]
* Sonia Boyce by Roy Ixley (artist's stories) [http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/artists_stories/single/63633]
* 'Sonia Boyce at The Agency', review by Sue Hubbard, The Independent. 6 Dec. 2004 [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20041206/ai_n12814644]
* 'Sonia Boyce : Speaking in Tongues' by Gilane Tawadros. Kala Press, 1997.
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