Vision and Voice
We took our name from some words by artist Gavin Jantjes, spoken at the Black Visual Arts Conference on 12th April 1986. These words remain relevant today.
![A scan of an old black and white newspaper article with the title Talking about Black Art](https://aparticularreality.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/37/2021/06/Vision-and-Voice-text-1.jpg)
![A scan of an old black and white newspaper article with a picture of Rita Keegan at a Black Arts Conference](https://aparticularreality.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/37/2021/06/Vision-and-Voice-text-2-1-723x1024.jpg)
“A black visual art is an innovative expression of a particular reality – a reality set in the framework of specific cultural and historic forces. These are: cultural domination by Western Eurocentrism and marginality to it; the experience of exploitation, appropriation, slavery, inequality and racism; and the long and abominable history of colonialism. A black art emerges from this framework and is vitalised by these forces.”
Gavin Jantjes, 1986
![A scan of an old black and white newspaper article with a photo of Gavin Jantjes](https://aparticularreality.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/37/2021/06/Vision-and-Voice-text-3-1-723x1024.jpg)
![A scan of an old black and white newspaper article with a photo of the chairperson Errol Lloyd](https://aparticularreality.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/37/2021/06/Vision-and-Voice-text-4-1-723x1024.jpg)