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Digital Clouds Don't Carry Rain: A Reading List

Texts exploring indigenous environmentalism, feminism and Spanish colonial history

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Niger-Delta / Future-Cosmos: A Resource List

Exploring themes of Afrofuturism, socially engaged practice and the politics of representation

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Introducing Digital Clouds Don’t Carry Rain

Highlighting five of the key motifs that are integral to Mónica Alcázar-Duarte's new exhibition at Autograph

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5 Things to Know About Niger-Delta / Future-Cosmos

Introducing Autograph’s new exhibition by Wilfred Ukpong

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Migrant Plights and Rights: Does Art Actually Change Anything?

By Dalia Al-Dujaili

Considering how we can use creativity to facilitate attitudinal changes towards migrants, asylum seekers and refugees

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On Using Photography to Unmask

by Joanne Limburg

Writer Joanne Limburg works with the methodology of 'neurophototherapy’ to explore her neurodivergent identity

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Free Download: Neurophototherapy Publication

by Sonia Boué

A life-enhancing creative self-help resource for neurodivergent people

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Into the Light: The Work of Hélène Amouzou

by Bidisha Mamata

Bidisha Mamata reflects on issues of displacement and exile in the distinctive imagery of Hélène Amouzou

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Capturing Moments in Black British History

Five moments from black British history reflected upon in the new exhibition 'Beyond The Black Triangle'

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Beyond the Black Triangle: The Photographs of Armet Francis

by Mark Sealy

Connecting the African diasporic subject to a sense of time, culture and location

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Writing Without Words: The Autoportraits of Hélène Amouzou

by Mark Sealy

On the spectral self-portraits which attempt to heal the traumas of asylum and dispossession

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4 Things to Know About ‘Beyond the Black Triangle’

Introducing Autograph’s new exhibition by Armet Francis

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Celebrating the humble breadstick (and other everyday heroes)

Young writers share poetry celebrating their heroes

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Black Trans Masculinities in Ajamu’s Ecce Homo

by Edwin Coomasaru

Considering how Black British trans masculinities are shaped by and resist histories of racist colonialism

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A Rhythmic Encounter with Eric Gyamfi’s Fixing Shadows

by Candace Allen

"There’s rhythmic movement everywhere here, in the patterns of portraits in blue"

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Who was Julius Eastman?

His life, music and legacy: introducing the figure at the heart of Eric Gyamfi's exhibition

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What more is there left to say

by Ashokkumar Mistry

On the importance of making space for neurodivergent practices in the arts

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Blue Trees [and other archival light forms]

by Nina Mingya Powles

A series of short lyrical poems - of people and place as simultaneously familiar and unfamiliar

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Routes

by Shagufta Iqbal

A poetic reflection on land and labour, and the need to nurture the natural space around us

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Caterwauling

by Nisha Ramayya

A poetic response to Autograph's commission, Pattern Recognition, by Reena Saini Kallat

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The Politics of Memory and Belonging in Sasha Huber’s Action Portraits

by Jareh Das

Reflecting on new commissions honouring Tilo Frey and Khadija Saye

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Who Was Renty Taylor?

Honouring and Recalling 7 Stories of Black Liberation Struggles

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5 Things to Know About 'YOU NAME IT'

Introducing Autograph’s new exhibition by Sasha Huber

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Time Travels in Agency, Advocacy and Acquisition

by Professor Mark Sealy

Tracing thirty years of advocacy work and its impact on national and international collections

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The Ties That Bind

by Karen Alexander

Reflecting on affirmations of black female presence and agency in Jeannette Ehlers’s commission

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The Fighter in the Looking Glass

by Taous R. Dahman

Considering the use of mirrors and reflections in Mónica de Miranda’s commission The Island

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What does it mean to be seen by machines?

by Kin (Cultura Plasmic INC)

On the relationships between machine learning and social exclusion, discrimination and human rights

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The Coventry Tales

by Chris Miller

A pilgrimage to the Turner Prize 2021 exhibition: on contemporary art, acts of solidarity and disability rights

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Art of Devotion: Belief, Faith and Spirit in Creative Practice

by Evan Ifekoya

On the work of Rotimi Fani-Kayode and Maud Sultur - and depictions of devotion, faith and spirituality that centre Black experience

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Pleasure for Pleasure’s Sake – Black Queer Erotica in the Archive

by Jason Okundaye

Reflecting on pleasure activism and the photographic work of Ajamu X

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7 Emerging Artists Working to Break Down Barriers in the Arts

Introducing the work of 7 disabled, neurodiverse and barrier-facing artists involved in our Transforming Leadership project

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Who Cares 'Who' Cares?

by Jane Trowell

On Autograph's creative platform for care and collaboration, and the work of detoxifying masculinities in arts & education

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We Need a New Way to Understand This Moment

PILOT artists share their work from the end of "the year that wasn’t"

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Mapping Different Futures in Pandemic Times

by Alberto Duman

A speculative journey via Angela Davis and Octavia Butler, to reflect on 'the future'

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Beauty For All: The Photography of Maxine Walker

by Mariama Attah

Considering the roles of stereotypes, beauty, Blackness and resistance in Maxine Walker’s photographic practice

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Dismantling Intellectual Ableism in the Arts

by Sonia Boué

Historically, the art world has not recognised or valued the work of neurodivergent artists

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From the Niger Delta to Southall: Understanding Race and Climate Justice

by Selina Nwulu

Nwulu considers the issues that bind the struggles for racial and climate justice

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Strength, Resilience and Struggle

by Zita Holbourne

Reflecting on key moments in the struggle for justice for the Windrush generation

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Art and Care in a Pandemic

by PILOT artists

What does care look like and mean in a pandemic?

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The Oneness of Things

by Loren Hansi Gordon

Reflecting on the materiality of nature, Hansi unpacks the symbolic meanings of Karl Ohiri's new work

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City, Country, City

by Lola Young

Ideas of 'home' in a personal response to Sonal Kantaria's new work

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Breathing Space

by Anne McNeill

The importance of creative acts of self-care and seeking respite in a global pandemic

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Done Begging: Art and Rights

by PILOT artists

Can rights offer true liberation when issues of structural racism and injustice are so prevalent in our society?

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Transformations: In My Father’s House

by Renée Mussai

Reviewing Ope Lori’s transgressive double performance – as father, and daughter – in her new work

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Performing a Lockdown: The Self and the Camera

by Krasimira Butseva

How the actions performed in isolation became rituals for survival in Silvia Rosi's new commission

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Life, Death and Everything In Between

by Tarini Malik

Reflecting on notions of cultural heritage, collaboration and familial relationships in Poulomi Desai’s new commission

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On Photographer and Activist Dexter McLean

by Dave Lewis

Considering the politics of representation, disability and the black body

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I let the pitcher drift away

by Sushma Jansari

Reflecting on Mohini Chandra's new film, and how the pandemic may shape our understanding of the past, present and future

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The Rhetorical Fallacy of Inclusion

by Anthony Downey

On imperial legacies and structural inequalities in response to Aida Silvestri’s artist commission

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In That Green

by Raymond Antrobus

A new poem reflecting on the shape of time, loss and grief

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One (pandemic) year on…

by Renée Mussai

Introducing our latest artist commissions

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Pursuing Education and Artistic Practice, Differently

Alberto Duman x Ali Eisa

Rethinking creative practice and education during crisis

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Selfies and Stories from Hackney’s Windrush Generation

Celebrating a legacy

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Between Feeling and Time: Brent in the 80s and 90s

by Mark Sealy

Roy Mehta’s photographs capture the Afro-Caribbean and Irish communities of Brent

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10 Artists Whose Practice We Discovered in Portfolio Reviews in 2020

by Bindi Vora

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Moments Outside the Frame

by Mark Sealy

How is the past recollected? Introducing our latest book, of artist Sunil Gupta's personal archive

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Care, crisis and arts education

Alberto Duman x Ali Eisa

Why alternative platforms are urgent now for arts education

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Rights, Visibility and Disability in Cultural Spaces

by Ali Eisa

"Collaborative acts can foster connection across difference ... and challenge prevailing hierarchies"

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Care, in the Post

How we built an inclusive workshop programme for families with children with SEND, and continued after Covid-19

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Announcing new artist commissions

by Renée Mussai

Autograph has commissioned ten artists to create new work, responding to the wider context of the Covid-19 crisis

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James Barnor: Ever Young

Download our newspaper dedicated to the pioneering photographer

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Hospitals, Piers, Masks and Sneezing

Chris Miller reviews Sharif Persaud

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(For)ever Young: A Tribute to James Barnor

Renée Mussai reflects on the legendary photographer

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"Did you hear?": Zara Joan Miller reviews Sharif Persaud

“We are, many of us, in a self-contained annex, often with a phone in hand”

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Visual Care

Franklyn Rodgers’ exquisite portraits capture a generation

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“We Were Here”: Remembering Nevil Hartley

Autograph’s Senior Curator Renée Mussai pays tribute to the late Nevil Hartley

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Who Cares

These photographs by Sonal Kantaria and Sangita Mistry feel more relevant than ever

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Chris Miller reviews The Space Between Things

As part of our Thursday Late event in collaboration with Submit to Love Studios, Chris Miller reviews Boswell's powerful exhibition

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The Waters of the Niger Delta

by ayebainemi

A new poetry commission exploring water spirits, queer relationships and fluidity

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Delta Sounds

by Jordan Blanchard

A new poem exploring oil extraction and environmental degradation in the Niger Delta