Following a successful period of user testing in 2009/10, diaspora-artists.net is now offline while the process of data-inputting continues and we seek to secure the next phase of the project. We hope to be able to officially launch diaspora-artists.net in 2011.

This page is automatically updated to record the progress of the project: As of today, details of 1466 artists, 217 exhibitions, 216 venues and 595 pieces of printed material from the archive have been added to the Diaspora Artists online archive.

diaspora-artists.net is an innovative online research and reference facility centred on visual arts practice by British or UK-based artists from a plurality of diasporic backgrounds. Initiated by Curator/Researcher Eddie Chambers the project has been produced in collaboration with Watershed and the Digital Cultures Research Centre at the University of the West of England, based in Bristol, UK. Karen Di Franco has taken a lead role in developing the site and data-inputting, in a position funded through AHRC.

The online material is drawn from a collection held by Eddie Chambers, relating to the visual arts practices of artists from African/African-Caribbean/South Asian and other diasporas. The aim of this website is to preserve and make available to online audiences material of historical and cultural significance, making a marked impact on the ways in which ‘British’ art history is recorded, constructed, disseminated taught and researched.

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