Annis Harrison

Annis Harrison is a multi-disciplinary artist who lives and works in London. Born of Swedish/Jamaican heritage, but living in the UK, Harrison has always occupied her own space, having a foot in more than one culture, more than one ethnicity, more than one language. Her art has always reflected this fascinating cultural duality and has elements of visual satire within, following in a great line of satirical Black artists, like Kara Walker, David Hammons, Renee Cox and Beverly McIver, who use elements of satire to express an anti-racist viewpoint.

She says, “This series of paintings are about the space between dream and reality, or the time between night and day when slightly unbelievable things – almost magical realist things – can happen. But there is also a criticism of white, male, Eurocentric power structure – in the pest-like presence of the ‘Bunny Boys’, forever in the way. The paintings are suffused and softened with the language of humour, but a harder edge lies just beneath.” Harrison is using an interracial visual language with slight sexual undertones to address the constant “taking” by the dominant Eurocentric culture, of selective part of Black culture.

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