The AHRC Fellowships in the Creative and Performing Arts scheme aims to support artists – whether visual artists, performers, musicians, creative writers, poets, or other producers of original creative work – as research fellows within a research environment.
Missionary Position II, 1985, Sonia BoyceSonia Boyce is appointed AHRC Fellow to The Centre for Drawing at Wimbledon College of Art from 2008-2011. Her research topic is ‘Second-hand: tracing performative responses through drawing and archiving'
A figure in the black British arts movement, Sonia Boyce is known for a cross media practice that speaks about racial identity and gender in Britain. Since the 1990s, Boyce has worked increasingly in ‘improvised collaborations’; artworks that integrate the audience to suggest how cultural differences might be articulated, mediated and enjoyed. Boyce has exhibited extensively in Europe and beyond. Recent exhibitions include: Sharjah International Bienal 7, Sharjah (2005); Devotional, National Portrait Gallery, London (2007); Crop Over, Harewood House, Leeds and Barbados National Museum (2007/2008), Menschen und Orte, Kunstverein, Konstanz (2008), Femmes ‘R’ Us, RadialSystem, Berlin (2008) and For you, only you, Magdalen Chapel, Oxford University and tour (2007/2008). Monographs have been published by Kala Press (1997), Iniva - the Institute of International Visual Arts (1998), Reed College (2001), the most recent being For you, only you (Paul Bonaventura, Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art, Oxford in collaboration with De La Warr Pavilion, Locus+, Milton Keynes Gallery, and Model Arts 2007)
