Diversity

Cultural and racial diversity

Chris Ofili mixes a range of cultural references, from the Bible to pornographic magazines. He uses many different media including elephant Dung. He enjoys the tension between the beautiful paint surfaces and the perceived ugliness of the dung.

Ingrid Pollard

Ingrid Pollard is a black photographer who uses portraiture photography and traditional landscape imagery to question social constructs such as Britishness.

Sonia Boyce

This photo-based work raises questions: the effect of the diaspora of the African peoples - their historical dispersion across the world through slavery and colonisation and the identity and representation of black people.

Boyce is the 'English born Native' of the title. The picture developed from a desire to consider the relationship between her own 'self-image' and the one offered by a predominantly white society through the mass media.

Sonia Boyce

Kara Walker

Kara Walker’s work is layered with images that reference history, literature, culture, and the darker aspects of human behavior. Connecting all of her work is an examination of power. The characters in her environments display power struggles of all kinds: physical, emotional, personal, racial, sexual, and historical.

Art on Call Archive: Kara Walker discusses the significance of the silhouette.

Sherin Neshat

Sherin Neshat is an Iranian-born film and photographic artist. She creates compelling films and photographs, based on the rigid, ritualistic separation of Iran’s male and female worlds.The content of some of her work is based around feminism and contemporary Islam Pieces cross the boundaries between Western and Islamic society and challenges preconceived ideas held in both cultures.

Yinka ShonibareBorn in England in 1962 and raised

in Nigeria, Yinka Shonibare currently

lives and works in London, where he

has gained international attention by

exploring issues of race and class

through a range of media that includes

sculpture, painting, photography, and

installation art.

Doh Ho Suh

Doh Ho Suh explores the fine line between strength in numbers and homogeneity, he constructs site-specific installations that question the boundaries of identity.

Disability / Ability

Alison Lapper

The Aphrodite of Milos better known as the Venus de Milo, is an ancient Greek statue and one of the most famous works of ancient Greek sculpture. Created at some time between 130 and 100BC, it is believed to depict Aphrodite(called Venus by the Romans), the Greek goddess of love and beauty. It is a marble sculpture, slightly larger than life size at 6.7 ft high. Its arms and original plinth have been lost.

Venus de Milo

‘Alison Lapper’ by Marc Quinn

Marc Quinn

During a residency at St Bartholomews and the Royal London Hospital, Gilbert painted patients undergoing facial surgery for cancer or deformity and patients who had suffered severe facial injuries from car crashes, shotgun wounds or assault. These portraits interpret the patients' physical appearance before, after and, occasionally, during their corrective surgery

Mark Gilbert

Sexuality and gender

Grayson Perry

David Hockney

Hockney took up gay subject matter before almost anyone else. What was it that tranquilised people's objections - the stylised figures, the nearly empty rooms, the tension between abstraction and representation? The clarity of the California light and the straightforward, almost innocent depiction of the body?

Gilbert and George

The pair are perhaps best known for their large scale pictures, frequently extremely brightly coloured, backlit, and overlaid with black grids. Gilbert and George themselves often feature in these works, along with flowers and youths, their friends, and echoes of Christian symbolism.

Representation of Women

John Currin

Jenny Saville

Louise Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois finds inspiration for her works from her childhood: her adulterous father, who had an affair with her governess (who resided in the home), and her mother, who refused to acknowledge it.

Social classes

Richard Bilingham

Martin Parr

Expressing diverse political opinion

BANKSY

Hannah Hoch

William Kentridge

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War Propaganda

John Heartfield