-----Original Message----- From: A list for electronic collection managers. Topics include national content [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Brenda Brinkley Sent: 25 June 2001 14:38 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Contemporary African and Asian Visual Art Now Online ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------ ***** Apologies for cross-posting ***** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------ 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 email: [log in to unmask]