The final lecture for this academic year in the series of Visiting Artist Talks at the School of Music and Fine Art will take place next week on Thursday, 21st May, 17.30-18.30 with the artist Sonia Boyce, MBE in The Clocktower Building Lecture Theatre, The School of Music and Fine Art, University of Kent, Chatham Historic Dockyard, Kent ME4 4TE.

Sonia Boyce, MBE, is a British Afro-Caribbean artist, living and working in London. She is Professor at Middlesex University and Professor of Black Art and Design at University of the Arts London.

Working across a range of media including photography, installation, text and improvised collaborations. Boyce came to prominence as part of the Black British cultural renaissance of the 1980s. Her work explores the experiences of being a black woman living in a white society, and how religion, politics and sexual politics form that experience.

‘In the broadest sense, my research interests lie in art as a social practice and the critical and contextual debates that arise from this burgeoning field. Since the 1990s my own art practice has relied on working with other people in collaborative and participatory situations, often demanding of those collaborators spontaneity and unrehearsed performative actions…I recoup the remains of these performative gestures “ the leftovers, the documentation“ to make the art works..’

Sonia Boyce was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List, 2007, for services to art.