Autumn at the Bluecoat: Deborah Roberts, Rosa-Johan Uddoh and Sumuyya Khader
The Bluecoat will be exhibiting three important solo shows focussing on the formation of identity from Friday 15 October 2021 until 23 January 2022.
A look inside, by US based artist Deborah Roberts (Austin, Texas 1962) critiques notions of beauty, the body, race and identity in contemporary society through the lens of Black children in the USA, combining collage with mixed media.
Practice Makes Perfect, by Rosa-Johan Uddoh (1993, Croydon), focuses on the timely subject of childhood education in Britain. The exhibition includes a major new work by Uddoh – a large-scale collage – which investigates the historical figure of Balthazar.
Sumuyya Khader’s Always Black Never Blue reflects on contemporary life in Liverpool and explores people and place through illustration, drawing, print and painting. Khader’s portraits focus on Black subjects and talk to Black lived experience and identity.
Find out more about each exhibition:
→ Deborah Roberts: A look inside
Friday 15 October 2021 – Sunday 23 January 2022
The first major European solo exhibition from award-winning US-based artist Deborah Roberts. Combining collage with mixed media, her figurative works critique notions of beauty, the body, race and identity in contemporary society through the lens of Black children in the USA.
Born and working in Austin Texas, Roberts’ work is held in several collections in US based galleries and in the UK, but this show marks the first time the artist has held a major solo exhibition in a British gallery, featuring both her text works and figurative collages.
→ Rosa-Johan Uddoh: Practice Makes Perfect
Friday 15 October 2021 – Sunday 23 January 2022
Uddoh is a inter-disciplinary artist who is inspired by Black feminist practice and writing. She is no stranger to the Bluecoat and featured in a live performance in 2018, as part of her residency with Liverpool John Moores University and New Contemporaries.
Practice Makes Perfect is focused on the timely subject of childhood education in Britain. Rosa-Johan Uddoh looks at how schooling forms an early understanding of what it means to be British, but also at what within this is marginalised or left out.
More on Rosa-Johan Uddoh here.
→ Sumuyya Khader’s: Always Black Never Blue
Friday 15 October 2021 – Sunday 23 January 2022
Sumuyya Khader’s solo exhibition at Bluecoat reflects on contemporary life in Liverpool and explores people and place through illustration, drawing, print and painting.
The exhibition marks Khader’s first UK solo show in a public gallery and brings together work produced across her career to date. This includes a recent return to painting, the medium that first drew her to art, an artistic development that has been supported by a residency here at Bluecoat in the months leading up to Khader’s exhibition.