‘This just hasn’t been done before’: art by 40 Black women hits Liverpool

The Walker gallery only had two artworks by Black women out of a 13,000-strong collection. A new exhibition marks the beginning of an attempt to redress the balanceArtist and curator Sumuyya Khader sits on the wooden benches of the Walker Gallery in Liverpool and scans the room. “We are surrounded by deceased white males,” she says, laughing while pointing out the portraits and landscapes on the walls around and above us.“I was always told when I was younger to look up,”