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Veronica Ryan: Along a Spectrum
Spike Island, Bristol
VERONICA RYAN is an outsider by circumstance as much as by choice. Born in Montserrat, she came to Britain as a child as part of the Windrush exodus.
When at the Bath Academy of Art, Ryan was the only black student for the first two years of her course. In a new environment, she would be noticed first and foremost for the colour of her skin and this would cause her considerable anxiety.
As she does now, she understood then that separateness is both sovereignty and independence and has resolutely resisted being pigeonholed.
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