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Rita Keegan is an artist, lecturer, and archivist from the Bronx
who has lived and worked in London since 1980. Her work explores
memory, history, dress, and adornment, often through the use of her
extensive family archive-a photographic record of a black middle
class Canadian family from 1890s to the present. She cofounded the
Brixton Art Gallery in 1982, established the Women of Colour Index
(WOCI) in 1987, and was Director of the African and Asian Visual
Arts Archive (AAVAA) until 1994. For many years, she was a lecturer
in multimedia arts at Goldsmiths.
Matthew Harle is a writer and archivist from London. His most
recent books include Can I Come In and Talk About These and Other
Ideas (2020) and a sourcebook on Penda's Fen, entitled Of Mud &
Flame (2019). Matthew works as an Archive Curator at the Barbican
Centre; regularly programmes archive film and video exhibitions
across London and is currently writing a polybiographical study of
a 1931 public directory of Berlin Jews.
Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski is an archivist and mixed media artist
currently pursuing a PhD at Chelsea College of Arts (UAL / Tate
Britain). Her doctoral research places much needed critical
attention on Jamaican born sculptor Ronald Moody. She holds an MA
in Archives and Record Management, International (UCL). She is a
member of the Afrofeminist Transatlantic Collaboration which maps
and archives the cultural resistance of Black feminist artists in
the UK and the Twins Cities and archivist for the Rita Keegan
Archive Project. Her practice aims to develop collective,
collaborative, archival strategies in relation to
physical/intangible space, the public and the personal in relation
to the African Diaspora.
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