Nicola Frimpong
Nicola Frimpong, also known as Freakpong (born 1987) is a British artist. She tackles themes of sex, race and violence using watercolour and digital images.
Life[edit]
Nicola Frimpong was born in Epsom in 1987.[1]
Frimpong's 2012 drawing The Accidental Birth of Nicola – I Should Have Been Born a Boy (2012) pictured pink and brown figures caught up in various sexual and suicidal acts. Untitled (White Slaves), also from 2012, staged a reversal of the racial violence of the transatlantic slave trade, picturing naked, white, shackled bodies incarcerated in a metal cage while Black onlookers assumed "the roles of auctioneer, trader, voyeur, abuser and violater".[1]
In 2014 Frimpong was interviewed as part of African Diaspora Artists in the 21st Century, a collaboration between King's College London's Department of International Development and the Institute of International Visual Arts (Iniva).[2]
Frimpong was chosen by the Royal Society of British Artists for their 2021 Rising Stars exhibition.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Celeste-Marie Bernier (2019). Stick to the Skin: African American and Black British Art, 1965-2015. University of California Press. p. 279. ISBN 9780520286535.
- ^ "African Diaspora Artists in the 21st Century - artist interview film archive". Retrieved 8 February 2022.
- ^ "RBA Annual Exhibition 2021". 16 March 2021.