The trailblazer is finally getting her due
“I was unprepared for being invited,” she says. “It was a big surprise.” She was “really heartened that it appears that in terms of my peers in the art world, they’ve been looking at the work that I’m doing,” but when her participation was announced, the overwhelming dominance of the narrative about being the first black British woman was perhaps… a tad disappointing.
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