The Royal Academy is showing some of the most spectacular works of art from Black artists from the American South over the last century with Souls Grown Deep Like The Rivers. The exhibition explores the unique tradition created by these artists, which uses materials available locally and encompasses topics like slavery, Jim Crow era politics, institutionalised racism, economic inequality and ancestral memory. There’ll be everything from sculpture and paintings to drawings and quilts on show, from artists like Thornton Dial, Hawkins Bolden, Bessie Harvey, Charles Williams, Nellie Mae Rowe, Mary Lee Bendolph, Marlene Bennett Jones, and Martha Jane Pettway.
