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Picturing resistance and resilience : South Asian identities in the work of Chila Kumari Burman (2020)
Journal Article
Correia, A. (2020). Picturing resistance and resilience : South Asian identities in the work of Chila Kumari Burman. Visual Culture in Britain, 21(2), 199-226. https://doi.org/10.1080/14714787.2020.1760128

The issues of migration and the allocation of passports is a contentious issue in twenty-first-century Britain. This paper offers a timely assessment of Chila Kumari Burman’s diptych, Convenience, Not Love, 1986–7, which uses the passport motif to pr... Read More about Picturing resistance and resilience : South Asian identities in the work of Chila Kumari Burman.

Where are the South Asian [Women] artists? The Horizon Gallery responds to 'The Other Story' (2020)
Book Chapter
Correia, A. Where are the South Asian [Women] artists? The Horizon Gallery responds to 'The Other Story'. In S. Boyce, D. Dibosa, & S. Lok (Eds.), The Fissures of Modernism: Collections, Cultures and Black-British Artists. Duke University Press. Manuscript submitted for publication

There is no question that The Other Story: Afro-Asian Artists in Post-War Britain curated by Rasheed Araeen and staged at the Hayward Gallery, London, and then touring to Wolverhampton and Manchester, 1989-1990, has had a formative, if belated, impac... Read More about Where are the South Asian [Women] artists? The Horizon Gallery responds to 'The Other Story'.

Making myself visible : self-portraiture and representations of blackness in the work of Donald Rodney (2019)
Journal Article
Correia, A. (2019). Making myself visible : self-portraiture and representations of blackness in the work of Donald Rodney. Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, 45, 74-86

This article considers the role of self-portraiture within the work of British artist Donald Rodney (1961–98). The text investigates the ways in which Rodney used the self-portrait, not to visualize himself, but to animate issues associated with the... Read More about Making myself visible : self-portraiture and representations of blackness in the work of Donald Rodney.

Researching exhibitions of South Asian women artists in Britain in the 1980s (2019)
Journal Article
Correia, A. (2019). Researching exhibitions of South Asian women artists in Britain in the 1980s. British Art Studies, https://doi.org/10.17658/issn.2058-5462/issue-13/acorreia/000

This paper narrates the author’s research methodologies and findings relating to her ongoing project, Articulating British Asian Art Histories. With a specific focus on four exhibitions of South Asian women artists during the 1980s and early 1990s, i... Read More about Researching exhibitions of South Asian women artists in Britain in the 1980s.

Encounters with art history (2019)
Book Chapter
Correia, A., Castagnini, L., Mistry, P., & Robles, E. (2019). Encounters with art history. In The place is here : the work of black artists in 1980s Britain ; edited by Nick Aikens and Elizabeth Robles (43-48). Sternberg Press

A discussion between Alice Correia, Laura Castagnini, Priyesh Mistry and Elizabeth Robles considering the role of Art History in the work of Black and Asian British artists during the 1980s. Artists discussed include Rasheed Araeen, Donald Rodney, Ve... Read More about Encounters with art history.

Held in the pattern : notes on Susan MacWilliam’s Concatenations (2019)
Book Chapter
Correia, A. (2019). Held in the pattern : notes on Susan MacWilliam’s Concatenations. In R. Coulter (Ed.), Susan MacWilliam : Modern Experiments. Banbridge, Northern Ireland: F.E. McWilliam Gallery

An essay discussing artist Susan MacWilliam's video work. Essay to be published in the forthcoming monograph "Modern Experiments" published by F.E. McWilliam Gallery, Banbridge.

Defiant Confrontation (2018)
Book Chapter
Correia, A. (2018). Defiant Confrontation. In H. Reckitt (Ed.), Art of Feminism : Images That Shaped the Fight for Equality, 1857-2017. San Francisco, USA: Chronicle Books / Tate Publishing, London

An in-depth discussion of the 1988 exhibition, "Along the Lines of Resistance", at Rochdale Art Gallery, and artist Chila Kumari Burman's diptych "Convenience, Not Love", 1985. Themes discussed include South Asian migration to Britain, feminist exhib... Read More about Defiant Confrontation.

Book review : Alison Smith, David Blayney Brown, and Carol Jacobi, eds. Artist and Empire : Facing Britain’s Imperial Past. London: Tate, 2016 (2018)
Journal Article
Correia, A. (2018). Book review : Alison Smith, David Blayney Brown, and Carol Jacobi, eds. Artist and Empire : Facing Britain’s Imperial Past. London: Tate, 2016. CAA.reviews (New York, N.Y.), https://doi.org/10.3202/caa.reviews.2018.39

Artist and Empire: Facing Britain’s Imperial Past is both a fascinating and frustrating compendium of art made since the sixteenth century that either depicts, reflects, or comments upon, British colonialism. Written by a team of Tate curators, with... Read More about Book review : Alison Smith, David Blayney Brown, and Carol Jacobi, eds. Artist and Empire : Facing Britain’s Imperial Past. London: Tate, 2016.

PRESENCE : A Window into Chinese Contemporary Art (2018)
Book Chapter
Correia, A. (2018). PRESENCE : A Window into Chinese Contemporary Art. In L. Taylor (Ed.), PRESENCE: A Window into Chinese Contemporary Art (3-40). Salford: University of Salford

A catalogue produced to accompany an exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Art from the University of Salford Art Collection, held at The Vaults, St George's Hall, Liverpool, 8 February - 3 June 2018. Short introductory texts, written by Alice C... Read More about PRESENCE : A Window into Chinese Contemporary Art.

Diasporic returns : reading partition in contemporary art (2017)
Journal Article
Correia, A. (2017). Diasporic returns : reading partition in contemporary art. Third Text, 31(2-3), 321-340. https://doi.org/10.1080/09528822.2017.1371917

This paper proposes an expansion of the field of South Asian Partition Studies to include the work of globally dispersed diasporic artists. Undertaking a detailed study of the work of three contemporary artists, Nilofar Akmut, Zarina Bhimji, and Navi... Read More about Diasporic returns : reading partition in contemporary art.

Partitions special issue : introduction (2017)
Journal Article
Correia, A., & Eaton, N. (2017). Partitions special issue : introduction. Third Text, 31(2-3), https://doi.org/10.1080/09528822.2017.1385909

This introduction examines the contested histories of Partitions in South Asia with an emphasis on memory and the line, the map and the museum. The map is read variously as a decolonial device through the works of contemporary artists such as Gulammo... Read More about Partitions special issue : introduction.

No entry : the work of Allan de Souza and Alia Syed (2016)
Book Chapter
Correia, A. (2016). No entry : the work of Allan de Souza and Alia Syed. In Contents under pressure. Davidson, North Carolina: Van Every/Smith Galleries

An introduction to the photographic and film work of Allan deSouza and Alia Syed, published in their joint exhibition catalogue "Contents Under Pressure", Davidson College, 2016.

Henry Moore : back to a land (2015)
Journal Article
Correia, A. (2015). Henry Moore : back to a land

Exhibition review of "Henry Moore: Back to a Land", held at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 7 March – 6 September 2015

Tracey Emin : the last great adventure is you (2015)
Journal Article
Correia, A. (2015). Tracey Emin : the last great adventure is you

A review of Tracey Emin's solo exhibition, "The Last Great Adventure is You", held at White Cube, Bermondsey, 8 October – 16 November 2014.

Gimpel Fils, Barbara Hepworth and the promotion of British sculpture in the 1950s (2015)
Journal Article
Correia, A. (2015). Gimpel Fils, Barbara Hepworth and the promotion of British sculpture in the 1950s. Sculpture Journal, 24(1), 97-112. https://doi.org/10.3828/sj.2015.24.1.7

During the 1950s, the commercial art gallery Gimpel Fils, London, established itself as a prominent space for showing and selling contemporary art. This paper considers the gallery’s role in promoting sculpture during that decade and examines the org... Read More about Gimpel Fils, Barbara Hepworth and the promotion of British sculpture in the 1950s.

Henry Moore : biography (2015)
Book Chapter
Correia, A. (2015). Henry Moore : biography. In Henry Moore : sculptural process and public identity. Tate Research Publication

A biography of artist Henry Moore, with a specific focus on his relationship with the Tate Gallery.

Critical voices : artists’ responses to Moore’s gift to Tate in 1967 (2015)
Book Chapter
Correia, A. (2015). Critical voices : artists’ responses to Moore’s gift to Tate in 1967. In Henry Moore : sculptural process and public identity. Tate Research Publication

In 1967 the announcement of Henry Moore’s intention to give a selection of his large-scale sculptures to the Tate Gallery elicited both praise and, among many younger artists, consternation. The ensuing debate about the gift raised difficult issues a... Read More about Critical voices : artists’ responses to Moore’s gift to Tate in 1967.

Hannah Maybank : bobhowlers and blooms ; introduction (2014)
Book Chapter
Correia, A. (2014). Hannah Maybank : bobhowlers and blooms ; introduction. In Bobhowlers and blooms. London: Gimpel Fils

An introductory essay for Hannah Maybank's catalogue, "Bobhowlers and blooms", published on the occasion of her solo exhibition at Gimpel Fils, London, 29th May - 6th July 2014.