Unit 2 Gallery

Professor Sarat Maharaj was born in South Africa and educated
in one of the segregated universities of the Apartheid era.
He became Professor of History and Theory of Art, Goldsmiths
College, University of London in 1997 where he is now
Research Professor. He is currently Professor of Visual Art
and Knowledge Systems, Lund University, Sweden. He was
a co-curator on the Documenta XI team (Kassel, 2002) and
is also on the board of inIVA.

Tamara Sivanandan is a Principal Lecturer in the Sociology
and Criminology Group, School of Health and Social Sciences
at Middlesex University. Her research and teaching interests
are in ‘race’ and representation, Black British and Third World
politics and culture, and education in Britain. She has written
on postcolonial literatures and on issues of race in education.

Richard Hylton is the curator of Unit 2 Gallery, London
Metropolitan University. Over the past fifteen years, he has
curated a wide range of national and international exhibitions
including Landscape Trauma in the age of Scopophilia and
Imagined Communities. His forthcoming independent project,
The Nature of the Beast: cultural diversity and the visual arts
sector. A study of policies, initiatives, and attitudes, is soon to
be published by the Institute of Interdisciplinary Arts (ICIA)
at the University of Bath.

Eddie Chambers’ work encompasses the roles of artist, curator,
archivist, writer and lecturer. Based in Bristol, he is currently
Research Fellow in Curating at London Metropolitan
University and Writer in Residence at Spike Island, Bristol.
He is also a Visiting Professor at Emory University, Atlanta,
Georgia. His current exhibition is Curator’s Eye II, Identity
& History: Personal and Social Narratives in Art in Jamaica,
at the National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston from 11
December 2005 to 18 March 2006

What is Cultural Diversity?is organised by Eddie Chambers and Richard Hylton.

Supported by the Research Capability Fund