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Collection Loan
Autograph is loaning 4 photographs from our collection by artist Eileen Perrier to Tate Britain's exhibition The 90s: Art and Fashion.
Since the 1990s, Perrier has used photographic portraiture to forge connections between people, acknowledging the profound value of being seen. Perrier’s interest in the elusive politics of beauty is reflected in her portraits from the late 1990s and early 2000s, Afro Hair and Beauty Show, highlighting the significance of hair and hairstyles as symbols of cultural pride and resistance. These now-iconic images captured the event’s effervescent atmosphere, showcasing a variety of hairstyles as expressions of empowerment, resistance and cultural pride.
The 90s: Art and Fashion brings together photography, fashion, art and design, including images by photographers including Juergen Teller, David Sims and Corinne Day. These are shown alongside the work of artists like Steve McQueen, Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas, and Yinka Shonibare, as well as fashion film and music culture, including collections by decade defining designers Vivienne Westwood, Alexander McQueen, and John Galliano.
Tate Britain
Millbank, London
SW1P 4RG
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Eileen Perrier, from the series Afro Hair and Beauty Show, 1998-2003
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Eileen Perrier, from the series Afro Hair and Beauty Show, 1998-2003
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Eileen Perrier, from the series Afro Hair and Beauty Show, 1998-2003
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Eileen Perrier, from the series Afro Hair and Beauty Show, 1998-2003
Eileen Perrier (b.1974, London, UK) is an artist with dual Ghanaian and Dominican diasporic heritage, specialising in portraiture. Since the 1990s, she has been a photographer and senior lecturer in photography.
Her work has been widely exhibited, including Centre Pompidou (France); Hayward Gallery (UK); Tate Britain (UK); The Photographers' Gallery (UK); The Whitechapel Gallery (UK). Perrier was an artist in residence at Light Work x Autograph (USA) and Kunsthalle Schirn (Germany). Her works are represented in private and public collections, including Arts Council England (UK); Autograph (UK); Foundling Museum (UK); Light Work (USA); Sindika Dokolo Foundation (Angola); Tate (UK); and Wedge Collection (Canada).
Banner image: Eileen Perrier, from the series Afro Hair and Beauty Show [detail], 1998-2003. Courtesy the artist and Autograph, London. © Eileen Perrier.
Loan preview: All images Eileen Perrier, from the series Afro Hair and Beauty Show, 1998-2003. Courtesy the artist and Autograph, London. © Eileen Perrier.
Artist: Courtesy Eileen Perrier.
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