| Code | DS/UK/499 |
| Person Name | Patel; Amina (Fl. 1980s); Curator, writer, photographer |
| Dates | Fl. 1980s |
| Activity | Amina Patel, a MRO (Media Resources Officer) joined the Cockpit Gallery Team, c 1984-1985, and became full time staff in 1986.
The first exhibition she curated there was 'Aurat Shakti: A Photographic Reflection of our Lives', Cockpit Gallery, London with Mumtaz Karimjee, Manjula Mukherjee, Vibha Osbon, and Amina Patel.
Also travelling to Asian Women's Advisory Service, Hackney, and Centreprise, Dalston.
Mumtaz Karimjee, and Amina Patel, ‘Aurat Shakti Revisited’, Ten.8: Critical Decade: Black British Photography in the 80s, 2, no.3, (Spring 1992), 62-63.
Amina Patel, ‘The Settler Makes Her/History’, Polareyes, no.1, (1987), 21. |
| Published Works | Amina Patel, “Images of Asian Women in the (White) Media”, in “ArtRage”, no.3–4 (Summer 1983), 40.
Mumtaz Karimjee, and Amina Patel, ‘Aurat Shakti Revisited’, Ten.8: Critical Decade: Black British Photography in the 80s, 2, no.3, (Spring 1992), 62-63.
Amina Patel, ‘The Settler Makes Her/History’, Polareyes, no.1, (1987), 21.
Polareyes: Black Women Photographers. Camden Arts Centre, London, with Brenda Agard, Margaret Andrews, Zarina Bhimji, Similola Coker, Joy Gregory, Rhona Harritte, Joy Kahumbu, Mumtaz Karimjee, Linda King, Jenny Mckenzie, Tracey Moffat, Amina Patel, Ingrid Pollard, Samena Rana, Molly Shinhat, Maxine Walker, Sharon Wallace, Geraldine Walsh, Gloria Walsh, and Halina Zajac, (press release)_ Polareyes: A Journal by and about Black Women Working in Photography no. 1, (1987) (One-off journal produced on the occasion of the exhibition at Camden Arts Centre.). |
| Source | Recordings: A Select Bibliography of Contemporary African, Afro-Caribbean and Asian British Art, InIVA, 1996 https://www.arts.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0036/199467/Recordings-A-Select-Bibliography-of-Contemporary-African,-Afro-Caribbean-and-Asian-British-Art2.pdf Accessed May 2023
Alice Correia, Decolonising the Archives, “Place of Birth Unavailable”: British-South Asian Women Artists and the Archive by Dr Alice Correia https://www.arts.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0034/345679/AliceCorreia_PlaceOfBirth_Final.pdf Accessed May 2023
Post for Aurat Shakti reproduced here, Poster for an exhibition titled Aurat Shakti ('women of strength'), mid 1980s, courtesy of Manjula Mukherjee, https://www.ahackneyautobiography.org.uk/trails/community-action/12 Accessed May 2023
Oral History with Andrew Dewdney http://explore.bl.uk/BLVU1:LSCOP-ALL:BLLSA6685330 Accessed May 2023
Correspondence with Claire Grey, May 2023 |