Sonia Boyce

Sonia Boyce

Sonia Boyce is a British Afro – Caribbean artist. She is also known or considered a painter, draughts women and a multi-media artist. Sonia Boyce was born in 1962, attended East Ham College and later Stourbridge College of Art. She left later in 1983.

Her early works of chalk and pastel drawings centered around the very volatile issues of race, ethnicity and contemporary urban experiences. These she also used in depicting friends and family. She used her work to question racial stereotypes that was in the daily media and lives of ordinary people.

Currently Boyce’s work has shifted or progressed from pastel drawings, photographic colleges, the questioning of racial stereotypes into conceptual material art. Boyce will let anybody know in plain words that her works are at re – orientating and re-negotiating the position of Black or Afro Caribbean art within mainstream of culture. Whether this is in Britain or out side Britain.

Since the 1980s Boyce’s mark in the mainstream art world was made through the medium of drawings. However, she has decided to diversify into photography, installation and mix media. Boyce has attended many art related seminars and held numerous exhibitions and attended many more. She has a residency at the university of Manchester. She doubles as the creative practitioner and co-director of the African and Asian and Visual Artist Archive her works include

·      Black female hair styles (1995)

·      One afro, twenty – five people (1996)

·      The audition curtain (1998)

·      Choral 1 and 2 (2000/01)

For some one who started her career at the British Home Stores. Sonia Boyce has done well to establish her self a  black female artist.