Claudette May Holmes (born 1962) is a British photographer. Her work, which uses elements of montage and hand-colouring, has challenged stereotypical representations of Black British people.[1]
Life edit
Claudette Holmes was born in 1962 in Birmingham, England. In the early 1980s she worked in community arts in Birmingham.[1] In 1982 she exhibited in Closing the Gap at the University of Aston and Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry.[2]
In 1990 Holmes was among several female black and Asian photographers featured in the documentary Sistren in Photography.[3] The 1993 exhibition From Negative Stereotype to Positive Image included her work alongside that of three other Birmingham photographers: Sir Benjamin Stone (1838–1914), Ernest Dyche (1887–1973) and Vanley Burke (born 1951).[4] In 1996 she won the Chrissie Bailey Photography and Education Award.[1]
Exhibitions edit
- Womanness, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, 1990. With Roshini Kempadoo.
- Sharp Voices, Still Lives, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, 1990.
- In Sight in View: Mozaix Black Visual Arts Poster Campaign. Various sites, 1990. With Nigel Madhoo, Roshini Kempadoo, Alvin Kelly, Maxine Walker and Said Adrus.[5]
- Manipulated Images, Picture House, Leicester, 1992.
- Black British Photographers, Houston FotoFestival, Texas, 1992.
- The Critical Decade, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, 1993.
- From Negative Stereotype to Positive Image, Birmingham Central Library, 1993. With Sir Benjamin Stone, Ernest Dyche
References edit
- ^ a b c James, Peter (2002). "Holmes, Claudette May". In Alison Donnell (ed.). Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture. Routledge. p. 199. ISBN 978-1-134-70025-7.
- ^ "Claudette Holmes, Photographer". Birmingham Images. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
- ^ "Sistren in Photography". Retrieved 10 February 2022.
- ^ James, Peter (2002). "From Negative Stereotype to Positive Image". In Alison Donnell (ed.). Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture. Routledge. pp. 119–120. ISBN 978-1-134-70025-7.
- ^ Keen, Melanie; Elizabeth Ward, eds. (1996). Recordings: a select bibliography of contemporary African, Afro-Caribbean and Asian British Art (PDF). p. 31.