ABSTRACT
Gilligan, C. (1992) 'Manipulated Images', Autograph (February): 2-4.
Horizon Gallery In 1985, the London-based organisation the Indian Arts Council in the U K proposed to establish a gallery space devoted to the work of artists from ethnic minority (see ethnic minorit ies) communities. Subsequently, the Horizon Gallery was set up, but as a space specifically devoted to artists from India and the Indian diaspora. The most important exhibition of the short-lived gallery was 'In Focus', held in 1990 as a response to The Other Story. The Horizon Gallery felt that 'The Other Story' ignored a number of artists who had come to the UK in the 1960s and who formed the Indian Artists United Kingdom collective in 1964. The gallery and the collective behind it were important in offering an alternative to the predominant mode of black or Afro-Asian art during the 1980s articulated by Eddie C h a m b e r s and Rasheed Araeen respectively. Their viewpoint was one based on an older notion of multiculturalism rather than anti-racism or cultural diversity. Arguably this strand of thinking and curating has been written out of contemporary accounts of black v isual arts.
