Dr Elizabeth Robles is a researcher and lecturer in contemporary art in the History of Art Department at the University of Bristol. She is particularly interested in the formation of ideas around ‘black art’ across the twentieth century and is currently a British Academy postdoctoral fellow working on a project entitled ‘Making Waves: Black Artists & ‘Black Art’ in Britain from 1962–1982’. Most recently the co-edited exhibition publication The Place is Here: The Work of Black Artists in 1980s Britain (Sternberg, 2019) that she edited alongside curator Nick Aikens was awarded the Historians for British Art Book Prize.
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- University of Bristol
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- Research Lead