198 Contemporary Arts & Learning, in partnership with the Rita Keegan Foundation, is proud to present the third edition exhibition of the Women of Colour Art Award (WoCAA); by blood, by guide, by call
Now in its third edition, the Women of Colour Artist Award (WoCAA) was established in recognition of the structural inequities faced by women and marginalized genders of colour across the UK visual arts. What began as an acknowledgement of that gap has become, across three iterations, an ongoing and evolving enquiry into who gets to make, how they make, and what stories are then held.
This edition marks a significant new chapter. Developed in partnership with the Rita Keegan Foundation; established in 2024 to celebrate and preserve the legacy of Rita Keegan OBE, and to support artists, researchers, and cultural workers to develop their own collections, research, and archives.
The winner of the Award Kat Anderson is a London based artist, a multi-disciplinary artist, working under an artistic framework titled Episodes of Horror, using horror to discuss historic and contemporary representations of mental illness and trauma as experienced by or projected upon Black bodies. She is accompanied by Rita Keegan's work and four finalists, Deeqa Ismail, Puer Deorum, Rose Nordin, and Sheida Mehri.
Curated by artist, curator and founder of 135 Home Studio, Ariel Collier, this exhibition analyses the processes, interiority and craft of these six artists, connecting their commitment to endurance, deconstruction, reconstruction and alternative archives to the intersectional womanist movement and Wynterían humanism.
