Marlene Smith
Marlene Smith (born 1964) is a British artist and curator, who was a founding members of BLK Art Group in the 1980s.
Marlene Smith
- Name
- Marlene Smith
- Born
- 1964
- Birthplace
- Birmingham, UK
- Known for
- BLK Art Group
- Education
- Bradford College
- Occupation
- Artist and curator
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Movements
- British black arts movement
- Languages
- English
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• Name — Marlene Smith • Born — 1964 • Birthplace — Birmingham, UK • Known for — BLK Art Group • Education — Bradford College • Occupation — Artist and curator
Education and career
Education and career
Born in Birmingham, West Midlands, England, in 1964, Marlene Smith studied Art & Design at Bradford College (1983–87). She is one of the founding members of the BLK Art Group in 1982. She was director of The Public in West Bromwich. She is UK Research Manager for Black Artists and Modernism, a collaborative research project run by the University of the Arts London and Middlesex University. In 2023, she was part of the jury for the John Moores Painting Prize along with Alexis Harding, Chila Kumari Singh Burman, The White Pube and Yu Hong.
Selected solo exhibitions
Selected solo exhibitions
• 1983–84: The Pan-Afrikan Connection • 1985: The Thin Black Line, Institute of Contemporary Arts • 1986: Unrecorded Truths, The Elbow Room • 1986: Some of Us Are Brave, The Black-Art Gallery
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- 1.BBC Radio 4. The BLK Art Group. The Reunion. 10 September 2023.
- 2.Tate. Donald Rodney Display, interviews: Marlene Smith: Curator Tate.
- 3.Smith, Marlene. Opening The Public to the public. The Guardian. 2008-06-19.
- 4.Black Artists & Modernism ⇒ About. www.blackartistsmodernism.co.uk.
- 5.John Moores Painting Prize 2023. National Museums Liverpool.
- 6.The image employed: the use of narrative in Black art. 1987. 0948797053.
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