John Lyons

Born, 1933 in Port of Spain, Trinidad

One of the artists in Black Art: Plotting the Course, John Lyons, artist, poet, writer and curator was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad in 1933 and studied at Goldsmiths College and the University of Newcadtle upon Tyne.

He has written a number of texts on the practice of visual artists, including the entry on Tony Phillips for the Four x 4 catalogue (1991). Spent a considerable number of years living in Manchester, during which time, with Alnoor Mitha and Lin Tang, he set up Studio Zamana.

John Lyons was responsible for a particularly useful text, Denzil Forrester’s Art in Context, which appeared in the catalogue, Denzil Forrester, Dub Transition: A Decade of Paintings 1980 - 1990, Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston, 22 September - 3 November 1990, pages 16 - 21. The exhibition also toured to venues in Newcastle and Lincoln, in 1991.

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