The Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) is pleased to feature nearly 2000
digital images from the African & Asian Visual Artists Archive (Aavaa); the
most comprehensive slide archive of contemporary visual art by artists of
African and Asian descent working in the UK since the post-war period.

The slide collection is divided into two main areas: installation views of
exhibitions and individual artists’ work.  The 12 artists residing on the
VADS database represent an important cross range of artforms in the Aavaa
slide collection.  With such works by recent graduates like Amanda Francis
(A Cosy Couple, 1997) to the early modernist sculptures of Ronald Moody
(Midonz, 1937) who arrived in England in the 1920s.  The exhibition slide
collection contains key thematic shows such as The Other Story which was
curated by Rasheed Araeen at the Hayward Gallery in 1989, as well as slides
of shows curated at the Black Art Gallery in London, a gallery space that
closed in the early 1990s.

AAVAA is searchable on-line at http://vads.ahds.ac.uk.  VADS now provides
nearly 12,000 cross-searchable visual arts images for use in research,
learning and teaching.

For more information, please contact:


Brenda Brinkley
Information Officer
Visual Arts Data Service
Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College
Falkner Road
Farnham
Surrey  GU9 7DS
Tel: 01252 892723
Fax: 01252 892725
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