Sue

Williamson’s

Funereal

Vitality

Sue Williamson's new show 'Between Memory and Forgetting' at The Box in Plymouth presents a careful overview of a career dedicated to memory and colonial injustice.

Williamson was seven when her family moved from the English Midlands to South Africa in 1948. By the 1980s she was making a name for herself in an apartheid state, her work carefully but urgently calling for change and centring the women of colour who were driving it. Four decades later, she returns for her first institutional show in the UK with a repertoire of work ranging from photography to sculpture and video, dedicated to memory and colonial injustice, and their sociopolitical manifestations and misrepresentations.