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148: 321:, it featured large-scale painting, installation and digital works that address anxieties about the impacts of globalisation. Lending its title to the exhibition, the centrepiece of the show is a 70th Anniversary Commission for the Arts Council Collection with Iniva and Bluecoat, consisting of three synchronised high definition video projections, which depict a narrative of economic and social collapse. This was Piper's first monographic show since the retrospective 371: 127:, and been posted on Malta's military base just before Piper's birth. Six months old when he arrived in Britain, Piper was raised in and around Birmingham. He was first attracted to art as a response to the industrialised, decaying landscape of his youth. Quoted in his monograph 162:, 1983), from the late 1980s he became primarily associated with technically innovative work that explored multi-media elements such as computer software, websites, tape/slide, sound and video within an installation-based practice. 1063: 343:
which was presented at the New Art Gallery in Walsal from January 12-April 24. It was "a set of mixed-media digital montages printed onto white material and intended to serve as protest banners."
131:(1997), he recalls being "interested in the aesthetics of peeling paint, rust and dereliction and the multi-layered look of fly posters when they become torn off". Piper went on to attend 886: 294: 243:
Piper continued to practise throughout the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s, exhibiting work in prestigious galleries and museums around the world, including, in 1999, the
1178: 274:. His 'Untitled' (1986) painting acquired by Manchester Art Gallery was re-interpreted in 2022 for display as a central work in their Climate Justice Gallery. 986: 925: 1158: 234:, the Institute of International Visual Arts – some of which have exhibited Piper's work. His photography was recognised in the 1992 survey by 943: 1153: 1183: 1168: 836: 135:, where he gained his B.A.(Hons) degree in Fine Art in 1983, before graduating with a master's degree in Environmental Media at the 798: 721: 479: 442: 379: 350: 414: 1037: 1148: 872: 421: 973: 263:
at the Ottawa Art Gallery. It included a collaborative installation between the two as well as their own separate ones.
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Although Piper’s early and student work made use of traditional fine art media such as paint and canvas (as in
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Examples of Piper's work are held in numerous public collections, including the Arts Council Collection
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in what came to be known as the BLK Art Group. Their politically forthright exhibition
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Piper first came to public attention when, in 1982, while still a student, he joined
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Things Done Change: The Cultural Politics of Recent Black Artists in Britain
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in and beyond Britain's art world became a part of the impetus that led to
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and has taught for several years as a Reader in Fine Art at London's
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In 2002, Keith Piper was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Arts at
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The Body and the Screen: Theories of Internet Spectatorship
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No Colour Bar: Black British Art in Action 1960–1990
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In 1983-84 a second touring exhibition, 1038:"Keith Piper: Body Politics.Work from 1982 – 2007" 313:, presented a solo exhibition of Piper's work at 1130: 736:Black British Culture and Society: A Text Reader 292:(1983) was featured in the six-month exhibition 154:(1982), Acrylic on stitched unstretched canvas. 119:, had gone to England in the 1950s, settled in 1125:at the New York New Museum of Contemporary Art 944:"Keith Piper bio page at Middlesex University" 815: 1179:English people of Antigua and Barbuda descent 887:"Manchester Art Gallery page for Keith Piper" 787: 332:was shown from October to December 2019 in 102: 879: 809: 773: 918: 462:Learn how and when to remove this message 209:in London and, again, the Africa Centre. 181:garnered media attention as it toured to 1087: 146: 851: 781:"'Keith Piper: Relocating the Remains'" 746: 744: 722:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 226:in 1989 as well as the founding of the 1131: 656: 339:In 2022, Piper created the exhibition 290:(You Are Now Entering) Mau Mau Country 185:in Nottingham; King Street Gallery in 115:heritage: his father, originally from 1159:Alumni of Nottingham Trent University 1083: 1081: 1061: 834: 349:, a site-specific commission for the 1035: 963:, ADRI, Middlesex University London. 873:"Tate's artist page for Keith Piper" 865: 841:Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine 741: 537:Four Corners, A Contest of Opposites 364: 361:Multimedia installations and project 1122:Keith Piper: Relocating the Remains 859:"Art UK - National Collection page" 709: 657:Chemam, Melissa (25 October 2021). 330:Body Politics – Work from 1982–2007 142: 13: 1154:Alumni of the Royal College of Art 1078: 816:Jonathan Jones (31 January 2012). 228:Association of Black Photographers 14: 1195: 1184:20th-century English male artists 1169:21st-century English male artists 1103: 212:However, the group's critique of 1088:Marshall, Alex (12 March 2024). 835:Marks, L. 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Malta
Trent Polytechnic
Royal College of Art
BLK Art Group
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BLK Art Group
West Midlands
Malta
African-Caribbean
Antigua
Birmingham
West Midlands
Trent Polytechnic
Royal College of Art

Eddie Chambers
Donald Rodney
Marlene Smith
Trent Polytechnic
Bristol
The Africa Centre
Herbert Art Gallery
Coventry
Battersea Arts Centre
institutional racism
The Other Story
Hayward Gallery
Association of Black Photographers
Iniva
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