A founding member of the Black British Arts Movement Claudette Johnson is considered one of
the most significant figurative artists of her generation. For over 30 years she has created
large-scale drawings of Black women and men that are at once intimate and powerful. Working in
a variety of media ranging from monochrome works in dark pastel to vast sheets brightly
coloured in vibrant gouache and watercolour. Johnson's distinctive drawings of friends
relatives and often herself seek as the artist puts it to tell a different story about our
presence in this country. Ed.: Elizaveta Shneyderman Grace Storey. Text: Dorothy Price
Claudette Johnson and John Akomfrah.
