The Atkinson: The Atkinson: Nahem Shoa: Black Presence
Date: 21.9.19 - 23.11.19
Time: All Day
Location: The Atkinson, Lord Street, Southport, Sefton, PR8 1DB
Nahem Shoa: Black Presence
Saturday 21 September 2019 – Saturday 23 November 2019
Artist Nahem Shoa has curated a selection of his striking portrait paintings alongside key historic and contemporary paintings of black portrait sitters. Nahem is especially keen to increase the number of positive images of black people in British art collections and has donated many of his own works to public collections. The exhibition includes work by Joshua Reynolds and Sonia Boyce, as well as Allan Ramsay’s outstanding ‘Portrait of an African (probably Ignatius Sancho)
Image: Nahem Shoa. Head of Desmond Haughton (red top)
1997. Oil on canvas, 48.2 x 55.8. Southampton Art Gallery
