| Activity | Solo Exhibitions
2011 Residency 3, Parfitt Gallery Croydon College,
2009 Belonging in Britain, Parliament Building, Barbados, WI *
2009 A Field of Sheep, Chenderit School/Visual Arts College
2009 Near & Far, Sunderland Glass Center, Sunderland UK *
2009 Spectre of the Black Boy, Kingsway Gallery, Goldsmiths,
2006/07 Landscape Trauma 2, Bath University, Bath UK, Wall Space Gallery, LaDanza Studio, London UK. *
2006/07 Working images, London South Bank University, London UK
2004 Paper boats and Canvas, Project Row Houses Texas USA
2003 Points of View, Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, Sussex UK
2002 Near and Far, Kendal Museum, Cumbria UK & touring. *
2001 Selective Yield, Wysing Arts Gallery. Cambridge, UK
1999 Hidden Histories , Heritage Stories, 3 Mills Island London &Uni of Central Lancaster
1997 Bursting Stone, Beacon Gallery. Whitehaven Cumbria (& touring) *
1996 By Way of Beachey Head, Towner Art Gallery. Eastbourne. *
1996 Wall to Wall, Euston Station. London.
1994 Hidden Histories, Heritage Stories, Lee Valley Park, London.*
1993 Oceans Apart, Art in General New York, USA. *
1993 Seaside Series, Metro Cinema. London.
1990 Essential Contact, (guest curator) CEPA Gallery, New York. *
1988 Seaside Series, Watershed Gallery. Bristol.
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Group Exhibitions
2012 Seeing Things Differently, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee
2012 Eastern Vista, Smith Row, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
2012 Recording Britain, Victoria & Albert Museum.
2011/12 Thin Black Lines, Tate Britain. London
2010 Vous tes ici, Foundation Clemént, Martinique, West Indies *
2009 Belonging in Britain, Parliament Building, Barbados, WI *
2009 LandFall, [curator/artist] Musuem of London Docklands, Lodon UK *
2007 TradeWinds 2007, [curator] Museum in Docklands, London *
2007 Green in Black and White, Winchester Gallery, Winchester.
2007 Crossing Waters, Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford UK *
2007 Garden of Eden – The Garden in Art, Kunsthalle in Emden, Germany *
2006 How to improve the World, Hayward Gallery London *
2006 Migratory Aesthetics, Leeds University, Leeds. *
2005 Liminal Britain, University of North Texas Art Gallery, Texas USA*
2005 Down the Garden Path, Queens Museum of Art, New York USA *
2005 Tony Ray Jones, Nederlanfds Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, Nederlands.
2003 Croydon 24-7, Croydon Clock Tower Croydon, Sussex.
2002 The Politics of Place, BildMuseet, Umea, Sweden & touring to Finland *.
2002 Travelouge, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester UK. *
2002 Location UK, Gimpel Fils, London UK
2002 Croydon on camera, Croydon Clock Tower Croydon, Sussex.
2001 Where are We?, Victoria & Albert Museum. London UK
2001 Landscape Trauma, The Gallery, Southwark Park London & Leeds Metropolitan University Gallery. *
1999-2002 Fleeting Arcadians, Museum of Art Hastings. Arts Council touring show.
1999/2000 StoryTime /Appendix A, Artist Place Jerusalem Israel. (touring) *
1997 MAP : In Difference, Amos Anderson Gallery Helsinki, Finland. *
1997 On the Bright Side of Life. NGBK, Berlin, Germany. (touring) *
1997 Transforming the Crown, Carribean Cultural Centre. New York. USA. *
1996 Counter Cultures, Photo-International. Rotterdam Holland. *
1995 Rescent Aquistions, Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
1995 Photo-genetics, Street Level Gallery. Glasgow. (& touring)
1995 Boxer, Walsall Museum & Art Gallery. Walsall. (& touring) *
1995 Self Evident, Ikon Gallery. Birmingham. [& touring] *
1995 Charge of the Light Brigade, Bankspace. London. *
1995 John Kobal Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London. *
1994 Strangers in Paradise, Photo-International Rotterdam, Holland. *
1994 Viewfinders, Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall. (touring) *
1993 Documentary Dilemmas, British Council touring to Europe & the Americas. *
1993 Rencontres Au Noir, Arles FotoFest, France.
1993 English, Ikon Gallery touring show. *
1992 FotoFest, Houston Fotofest Texas USA. *
1992 Womens Perspective, Bookworks Gallery. London.
1992 Mai de a Photofest, FotoFest Reims, France. *
1992 BBC Billboard Art Project, 20 Billboard sites throughout the UK.
1992 Critical Decade, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford & CAVE, Birmingham. *
1991 Interrogating Identities, Grey Art Gallery, New York USA. *
1991 Beyond Landscape, Derby Fotofest. Derby.
1991 Stolen Glances, Stills Gallery, Glasgow Scotland. *
1990 In the Ring, CEPA Gallery. New York USA.
1990 Essential Contact, CEPA Gallery. New York USA.* (curator)
1990 Women in my Life, Gunnesbury Museum, London.
1990 Heritage, Image & History, Impressions Gallery, York touring).
1990 ʻLet the Canvas come to Life with Black Facesʼ, Herbert Gallery, Bristol. *
1990 Disputed Identities, Camerawork Gallery, San Fransico USA. *
1990 Black Womens Creativity Project, Rochdale Art Gallery, UK
1989 Art in the Park, London Ecology Centre, London.
1989 Territories, Chisenhale Gallery, London.
1989 Critical Landscapes, Impressions Gallery, York. *
1989 Intimate Distance, Photographers Gallery London. *
1989 Transatlantic Dialogue, Jamaica Art Centre, New York.USA touring Camerawork London. *
1989 Personal Viewpoints, Rufford Crafts Centre. Nottingham.
1989 Through the Looking Glass, Barbican Gallery, London. *
1989 Passion, Elbow Room, London.
1989 Haringey Recollections, Bruce Castle Museum London.
1989 Cost of the English Landscapes, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle. *
1987/88 D.Max Touring Show, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham .& touring. *
1986 Starring Mummy & Daddy, Black Art Gallery. London.
1986 The Black Experience. Brixton Art Gallery. London. *
1986 Three Black Women Photographers, Commonwealth Institute,
1986 Testimony, Pavilion Gallery. Leeds, touring to Camerawork Gallery London.
1985 The Thin Black Line, I.C.A . London. * International Womens Day. Brixton Village, London.
1985 Black Womens Creativity, Peoples Gallery, London.
1984 Celebration of Black Women, Southall, London.
1984 Black Women time now, Battersea Arts Centre, London.
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Collections
National Museum of Film, Photography and Video. Bradford UK. Victoria & Albert Museum. London UK.
Harringey Council Archives London.
Cumbria County Council.
Virgin East Coast Trains Arts Council Britain National Trust UK. Bath University
London South Bank University
GNER (Great North Easter n Railway) UK Project Row Houses, USA
Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford UK *
Commissions
2006 London South Bank University
2006 Bath University, Centure for Visual Arts
2003 Fotofest, Huston Texas, USA.
2003 Croydon Council
2002 Whitworth Museum & Art Gallery, Manchester. 2001 Autograph: ABP
2000 Year of the Artist. Wysing Arts, Cambridge. 1998 National Trust
1996 Northern Arts/Copeland County Council.
1995 InIVA. & Walsall Art Gallery. London.
1995 Autograph & Ikon Gallery. Birmingham.
1994 Towner Art Gallery. / C.C.P.M. Eastbourne. 1994 Lee Valley Park Authority. London.
1992 Enfoco Inc. New York. USA.
1992 BBC Billboard Art Project. London. UK.
1989 Bruce Castle Museum. London UK.
1989 Photographers Gallery. London. UK.
1989 Laing Art Gallery. Newcastle UK.
UK Residencies
2012/13 Visual Arts in Rural Communities. Northumberland UK 2010-11 Fine Art Department. Croydon College
2008 Chenderit Visual Arts College, Oxford. UK
2004 Project Row Houses. Huston, Texas USA
2000 Wysing Arts, Cambridge.
1998 Cumbria National Park. Becon Gallery Whithaven.
1998 National Trust. Lindersfarne. Northumberland.
1994 Lee Valley Park Authority London.
1994 Eastbourne. Towner Art Gallery
International Residencies
2004 Project Row Houses Texas USA
1999 LightWorks, Syrarcuse New York USA.
Broadcasts
2010 The Culture Show. Channel 4.
2009 Good morning Barbados. TV
2005 The Culture Show. Channel 4.
2004 Pacifica Radio. Houston Texas USA.
1996 Border TV. 'Postcards from Paradise.' (& Carlton TV 1998).
1995 BBC 1 Countryfile. (National photography competition judge).
1995 BBC Open University. 'Philosophy & photography'.
1995 C4 First Out. Specturum Womens Photography Festival.
1995 BBC Radio 4. 'Costing the Earth'.
1994 BBC South West. 'No problem here' BBC Radio 3. 'Artists in the Landscape'.
1993 BBC 1. Countryfile.
1993Anglia TV. 'Black Figures, White Landscape'.
1992 BBC 2. Open University. 'Arts in Society'.
Research Projects
Associate Fellow 2006-2009 The Spectre of the Black Boy Goldsmiths College University of London
Centre for Urban and Community Research
2006 TradeWinds – LandFall 2009. Residency – commission: visual arts, new music and poetry – Exhibtions at at Project Row Houses, Texas USA and Museum of London, Docklands.
2002 –2005 AHRB Fellowship in Creative &Performing Arts: Hidden in a Public Place. South Bank University. Faculty of Arts & Human Sciences. London UK.
Career and Awards
2024 The Hasselblad Award Laureate
2023 Awarded an MBE
2022 Nominated for the Turner Prize
2018 Made an Inaugural Stuart Hall Associate Fellow at the University of Sussex
2016 Awarded an Honorary Fellowship at the Royal Photographic Society
2009-2012 Associate Lecturer/ Photography P/T, Kingston University
2009-2011 Associate Lecturer P/T, University of Hertfordshire
2007 Leverhulme Individual Artists Award
2007 Arts Council Artists Award
2006 Arts Council Artists award
2004 Nominated Royal Photographic Society. John Kobal First book Award.
2001-2007 Visiting Lecturer, London South Bank University
2001 Visiting Artist/Associate Lecturer P/T, Croydon College of Art
2001 AHRC Fellowship in Creative & Performing Arts
1998-2001 Senior Lecturer: Photographic Art. 0.5, University of Wale Collage Newport
1994 London Arts Board.
1991 Arts Council of Britain.
1988 Nominated for Athena Arts Award.
1987 & 89. Nominated for Sun Life Photography Award.
1982 Started the Blackwomen’s Creativity Project alongside fellow artist and friend, Maud Sulter
1988 Co-founded Autograph, an agency which supports black photographers |