Rudy Loewe

23 Jun-29 Jul 2023

PV 22 Jun 2023, 6-9pm

Overview

Rudy Loewe is a visual artist using painting and drawing as a method to interrogate and expose Britain’s role in suppressing Black Power movements in the English-speaking Caribbean during the 1960s and 70s.

Loewe’s approach to painting reflects their background in comics and illustration, combining text with image and sequential narrative. Bold and colourful acrylic juxtaposes the voices of black resistance with that of the British state. The works call into question the dominant retelling of independence from the British Empire and its lasting legacies.

Loewe uses archival documents as source material for their paintings, questioning the role of the state archive in how history is retold. Their practice based PhD draws upon recently declassified records from the Information Research Department, a once top secret unit within the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, responsible for creating propaganda.

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