FALL/UPRISING

Fall/Uprising is a series of paintings about the history of Black British resistance. They were created in 2005 to mark 20 years since London’s urban disturbances of 1985 which centred on the police shooting of Cherry Groce, and the deaths of Cynthia Jarrett and Keith Blakelock.

The paintings were first shown in the solo exhibition Fall/Uprising at the Bettie Morton Gallery in Brixton, South London. Works from the series have since been exhibited internationally, including at Rivington Place and the ICA in London, the New Art Exchange in Nottingham, the Diaspora Pavilion in Venice and the 15th Sharjah Biennial.

Artworks from the series are held in public and private collections internationally, including the Wolverhampton Art Gallery and the Sharjah Art Foundation.

For more about these artworks:

Eddie Chambers Visual Culture in Britain, ‘Reading the Riot Act’

Rianna Jade Parker A Brief History of Black British Art

Dibosa, D., Donkor, K., Jackson, T., Tulloch, C Kimathi Donkor: Queens of the Undead