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The Bluecoat to present Sumuyya Khader’s solo exhibition ‘Always Black Never Blue’

August 28, 2021
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The Bluecoat to present Sumuyya Khader’s solo exhibition 'Always Black Never Blue'

Sumuyya Khader’s ‘Always Black Never Blue’ to show at the Bluecoat, Liverpool October 2021.

Her work reflects on contemporary life in Liverpool, exploring people and place through illustration, drawing, print and painting. The exhibition opens to the public from 15 October 2021 – 23 January 2022.

The exhibition marks Khader’s first UK solo show in a public gallery and brings together work produced across her career to date. This includes a recent return to painting, the medium that first drew her to art, an artistic development that has been supported by a residency at the Bluecoat in the months leading up to Khader’s exhibition.

The Bluecoat to present Sumuyya Khader’s solo exhibition 'Always Black Never Blue'

Khader’s paintings and illustrations capture fleeting moments and snapshots of daily life, originally captured by the artist photographing the world around her. Khader transforms these snapshots into her compositions, often by flattening images and mixing in abstract shapes, colours and rhythms.  

Her work often features restorative green spaces, relaxed interiors and still life, including details such as house plants layered with patterns and markings. The spaces she depicts celebrate the life-giving properties of plants and greenery, and through their precisely detailed compositions, also advocate for a great sense of care for our surroundings and our neighbours.

Khader’s portraits focus on Black subjects and talk to Black lived experience and identity. Her celebration of people and places is often combined with powerful text, such as ‘STAND UP, SPEAK OUT THIS IS A FIGHT FOR US ALL’, ‘WE FIGHT’, and ‘SAY IT LOUD, I’M BLACK AND I’M PROUD’ reflecting the urgency of the fight against racism and the erasure of Black voices, particularly in Liverpool. 

The Bluecoat to present Sumuyya Khader’s solo exhibition 'Always Black Never Blue'

The artist Sumuyya Khader says of the exhibition: 

“I’m thrilled to be offered the opportunity to exhibit my work in my hometown. After a highly politically charged year I’m excited to present a body of work that looks at celebrating Black joy and explores how we can protect the bodies within our community.”

Khader is an artist of empowerment, both through the combinations of text and images in her work and also through the action she takes beyond her studio. Recent projects have included establishing Aspen Yard, an artist studio based in Toxteth, Liverpool; and Granby Press, a community print shop built as a resource for the local community to print zines, newsletters, flyers and artworks. In October 2020, Khader curated Celebrating Black Liverpool Artists, an outdoor exhibition on the facade of the Bluecoat as part of Liverpool City Council’s Without Wallsprogramme, which celebrated the work of 5 Liverpool artists and highlighted the lack of visibility for the work of black women in the city.

Marie-Anne McQuay, Head of Programme at the Bluecoat writes:

“It’s a real honour to show new paintings by Sumuyya Khader as part of a survey of recent works. She is a pioneering artist, vital to Liverpool’s artistic life with a cultural impact that goes beyond the city. We’ve been lucky enough to work with her on number of projects, including a new installation of tiles and poster designs and we’re so delighted to present her in the gallery alongside artists Deborah Roberts and Rosa Johan Uddoah for our much anticipated autumn season.” 

Khader’s exhibition will show alongside solo presentations A Look Inside, by American artist Deborah Roberts, (Austin, Texas, 1962) and Practice Makes Perfect by UK artist Rosa Johan Uddoh. The three exhibitions will be open to the public from 15 October 2021 – 23 January 2022 and explore the formation of identity.   

This Exhibition is supported by The Idlewild Trust, Jerwood Arts and Garfield Weston.

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