Eddie Chambers was born to Jamaican immigrant parents in Wolverhampton, England in 1960. Working with artists such as Keith Piper, Chambers's early exhibitions centred on ideas of 'Black Art', as a racially conscious form of art making, while his later curatorial projects included solo exhibitions of work by Lesley Sanderson, Eugene Palmer, Denzil Forrester, Medina Hammad, Tam Joseph and Frank Bowling. His monographs include Black Artists in British Art: A History Since the 1950s, (2014), Roots & Culture: Cultural Politics in the Making of Black Britain (2017) and World is Africa: Writings on Diaspora Art (2021).

Listen to his story here or read the full biography on the BURU database: https://www.buru.org.uk/contributor/eddie-chambers