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Brenda Patricia Agard

Born, 1961. Died, 2012

Brenda Agard (born 20.08.1961) was a familiar and consistent presence in the exhibitions of the mid 1980s that reflected the emergence of a new generation of Black-British artists. A photographer and artist, her work sought to create affirming images centred on the resilience of the Black woman. An early showing of her work was Mirror Reflecting Darkly, an exhibition of work by Black women artists held at Brixton Art Gallery in 1985. Her work was included in the important Thin Black Line exhibition held at the ICA later that year. Agard’s work featured in Lubaina Himid’s Elbow Room exhibition of 1986, titled Unrecorded Truths. More recently, Agard appeared in the Black Audio Film Collective film, 3 Songs on Pain, Light and Time, (1995) speaking about the artist Donald Rodney. Brenda Agard died of bowel cancer on 29 October 2012, St Joseph’s Hospice.