Sonia Boyce

Boyce is a black British artist born in London 1962. Boyce studied art at the East Ham College and Stourbridge College of art until 1983. Boyce is a unique artist who has a finger in every pie; her medium includes photography, installation, text, drawing and also painting. Her work questions racial stereotypes in the media. In her early days as an artist she used chalk and pastels drawing  her friends and family, often including wallpaper patterns and bright colours which she associated with the Caribbean, and connected with her own background. Through this she examined her own position as a black female living in Britan (e.g. Lay Back, Keep Quiet and Think of What Made Britain so Great, charcoal, pastel and watercolour on paper, 4 parts, 15.25×6.50 m each, 1986; AC Eng) 

From Tarzan to Rambo: English born 'Native' considers her relationship to the constructed/self image and her roots in reconstruction 1987






References :Sonia Boyce (exh. cat., intro P. Ntuli; London, Air Gal., 1987) [texts by Boyce]
The Impossible Self (exh. cat. by B. Ferguson, S. Nairne, S. Boyce and others, Winnipeg, A.G., 1988)http://www.iniva.org/library/archive/people/b/boyce_sonia (no date)
(Accessed:25 April 2012)
http://www.artfortune.com/sonia-boyce/artist-129487/ (no date)
(Accessed:25 April 2012