Article relating to an exhibition, 1998
Published by: The Guardian
Year published: 1998
Unpaginated.

Small quarter page article/original clipping from newspaper

Title: An exciting splash of colour
Subtitle: Ofili’s Turner prize is a small victory for all black people, argues Raekha Prasad
Author: Raekha Prasad
Source: The Guardian, dated 5 December 1998

Brief article about Chris Ofili winning the Turner Prize and its potential effects on a black audience - in terms of visibilty in the arts and issues around nationality and cultural identity.

From the article: “…and most black people opening the papers or switching on the television would have been struck by Ofili’s race first and his medium second. It’s not difficult to see why. Contemporary art galleries in Britain do not attract a large black audience. Visual art is still more clubby than contemporary music or even theatre. The Tate and the National Portrait Gallery show work by black artists, but permanent displays are largely of European and western art.”