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Emma Amos (born 18 August 1964 [1] in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire) is an English actress. She played Yvonne Sparrow in the last three series and 2016 special of time travel sitcom Goodnight Sweetheart alongside Nicholas Lyndhurst, replacing original actress Michelle Holmes who held the role from 1993-96.
2 Videos. 42 Photos. Emma Amos was born on 18 August 1964 in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), Secrets & Lies (1996) and Vera Drake (2004). She has been married to Jonathan Coy since 1998. They have one child.
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30 apr 2021 · Emma Amos's art and activism confronted racism and sexism in the art world—and she sought to change it. Here's why she's important.
- Maximilíano Durón
This is Emma Amos' moment. Her themes — gender and race — press on our minds now. For six decades Amos explored them in prints, paintings and fabrics. She died May 20, just months before a ...
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Emma Amoswas born in 1937 in Atlanta, Georgia. Her parents, India De Laine Amos and Miles Green Amos owned a drug store and worked there. They had many connections within Atlanta’s Black intelligentsia though, including the writer Zora Neale Hurston and the sociologist and activist W. E. B. Du Bois. At an early age Amos showed a great affinity for ...
After her first exhibition at Alexander Gallery in Atlanta, Amos moved to New York in 1960 in order to join a more stimulating art scene. However, in the Big Apple, she didn’t find the open-minded, progressive environment she was looking for. She couldn’t find a job or exhibit her works because art galleries, studios, and colleges rejected her base...
1960s Attitude
At the beginning of her artistic career, Emma Amos experimented a lot with colors. She was influenced by Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and color field painting movements that were taking hold in the America of the 1960s. In her series Attitude, Amos mostly depicted herself and other women of color, a minority that was missing in the art world or only represented from a white, male point of view. We can see how Amos’ style evolved through the years, becoming more realistic during the 1970s....
1980s Athletes and Animals
During the 1980s Amos become more conscious of her role as an artist and more involved in political and social issues. Plus, her interest in the representation of movement grew, as it was another important component of her culture. The Athletes and Animals series is the result of all these points. In these paintings, she portrayed Black athletes alongside wild animals including cheetahs, lions, and crocodiles. Furthermore, the animals reference the discriminatory and racist belief that Black...
The Falling Series
Through the 1990sFallingseries, the artist wanted to express her fears and anxiety about the history and the future of her country. She depicted both well-known and unknown figures, dancers, or singers falling through undefined spaces. In the background, we see various symbols and architectures, and often the American and Confederate flags. The painting Equalsis one of Amos’ most emblematic artworks of this series. African and American colors, symbols and fabrics combine, while an African Ame...
Emma Amos kept working until Alzheimer’s forced her to stop. She left us in 2020 but through the 2000s her work became appreciated. Numerous exhibitions showcased her art, for example, Tate’s Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power and the Brooklyn Museum’s We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women 1965-1985, both in 2017. Her first caree...
24 set 2020 · Emma Amos (1937-2020) La Signora dell’Arte Black by Paulette. Updated: Nov 2, 2020. Emma Amos nacque il 16 marzo del 1937 ad Atlanta in Georgia, in quell’America fortemente razzista e spesso violenta, lei che era, come amava sottolineare, un vero miscuglio di razze: un po’ africana, un po’ cherokee, un po’ irlandese e ...
21 ott 2021 · The Many Styles of Emma Amos, and Her Drive to Get Free. The artist, who died last year, used collage and fabric to break out of painting’s confines. Now her works are on view at the ...
