Black British Art in Hackney 1960s-1990s

Man wearing black framed glasses and green t-shirt sitting on a chair with a selection of painted canvasses to his right.

Hackney’s diverse African and Caribbean communities played a significant role in the flourishing of multicultural arts and culture in the borough from the 1960s, when the area’s cheap housing attracted both early career artists and recent migrants. In the 1960s and 1970s people from Antigua and Jamaica settled in Stoke Newington, and St Lucians and … Read more