Trigger Warning: This episode discusses issues with mental health, transphobia, racism, colonial violence and anti-blackness.
Podcast host Naomi sits down with artist Rudy Loewe to explore how they interpret black histories and social politics through painting, drawing and text. Listen as they discuss Britain’s response to black resistance in the English-speaking Caribbean in the 60s,70s and 80s. Gain a more comprehensive picture of Black presence in Britain today. Connect with us in learning how even today Black History is being erased with many of the archives not being accessible to the public. Additionally we look forward to what new, and inspiring legacies are being created today in the rich and intricate story of Black British Artists.
About our guest:
Rudy Loewe (they/them)
Rudy Loewe is a London-based visual artist engaging histories, politics and Caribbean folklore through painting and drawing. Loewe’s practice interrogates what has become truth in the collective memory, envisaging alternate futures that centre black queer and trans experience.
They are currently undertaking a practice-based PhD at the University of the Arts London, critiquing Britain’s relationship to Black Power organising in the English-speaking Caribbean during the 1960s and 70s. Using records from The National Archives, Loewe is platforming this history, creating paintings and drawings.
Black Digital Archiving Project: blackdigitalarchives.org
Rudy Loewe insta: @RudyLoewe
Catch Rudy at these exhibitions this year (2022).
- New Contemporaries (Hull, London) https://newcontemporaries.org.uk/
- NAE Open 22, New Art Exchange Nottingham, https://www.nae.org.uk/
- The solo exhibition hasn’t been announced so will do that closer to the time
Rudy also mentioned:
- The Huntley Archives held at London Metropolitan Archives
- rukus! archive held at London Metropolitan Archives
- ‘Black Power in Bermuda: The Struggle for Decolonization’ by Quito Swan
- ‘Black Power in the Caribbean’ edited by Kate Quinn
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