The letters BLK in white writing against a black background. Within the letters are dates which the image informs us correspond to events leading up to the Blk Art Group's existence.

Dr Ian Sergeant

Dr Ian Sergeant is a curator-researcher and currently Senior Curator (Global Majority Collections), Birmingham Museum Trust. He was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow on Transforming Collections: Reimagining Art, Heritage and Nation , Decolonising Arts Institute, University of the Arts London (2022-2024).

He has an MA in Contemporary Curatorial Practice and completed his practice based PhD at Birmingham City University in 2022. He is Co-Artistic Director of performing and visual arts company Kalaboration CIC. Curated exhibitions, projects and events include:

The more things change…, (Wolverhampton Art Gallery 2023)
…Like a short cut through the brambles, (Coventry Biennial 2023-2024)
Nation’s Finest, Putting Down Roots and Birthing, (Birmingham 2022 Festival 2022)
Interference:s, (Coventry Biennial 2021)
Cut & Mix, (New Art Exchange 2021)
Donald Rodney at Celine Gallery, (Glasgow International 2021)
Reimaging Donald Rodney, (Vivid Projects 2016)