Brilliant Things to Do This August
Daisy Woodward, AnOther
August 2025
At Alison Jacques gallery for just one more week, be sure to catch first UK solo exhibition of African American painter, printmaker and textile artist Emma Amos, who passed away in 2020, aged 83. Amos studied at London’s Central School of Art and Design in the 1950s, before going on to become a pioneering, if under-appreciated, figure in postmodern art. With a strong focus on identity, her output is as colourful and expressive as it is narratively and politically charged – she worked with political and feminist collectives throughout her career, including the Guerrilla Girls, and used her work as a powerful means of interrogating gender and racial inequity in the art world. […]