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Steve McQueen is a celebrated artist and filmmaker renowned for his uncompromising vision. McQueen has directed five feature films, including the Oscar-winning 12 Years a Slave and most recently Blitz. He has won numerous awards including the Turner Prize in 1999. His work has been featured in Documenta (1997 & 2002), and he represented the United Kingdom at the 2009 Venice Biennale. He has held solo exhibitions at prominent institutions such as the Art Institute of Chicago (2012), Schaulager, Basel (2013), Tate Modern (2020) and Dia Beacon, New York (2024). Projects include Year 3 at Tate Britain (2019) and Grenfell at the Serpentine South Gallery (2023). In 2020, McQueen made Small Axe, a five-part film anthology about London's West Indian community. He co-directed Uprising (2021), a documentary on the 1981 New Cross Fire.
'[A] powerful book … will move you to action' Elle 'McQueen has compiled an array of fascinating photos as well as firsthand accounts and contributions from journalist Gary Younge, cultural theorist Paul Gilroy, Baroness Chakrabarti to paint a compelling picture of protest in Britain' Independent 'The story of British activism through photographs' Guardian 'Resistance is a moving paean to the activists and image-makers whose fortitude and resilience have guided modern activism' Wallpaper magazine 'Continuing the filmmaker’s motivation to preserve narratives at risk of being forgotten, this show speaks loudly to the present moment as much as to critical turning points in history' Dazed
