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Souls Grown Deep Like The Rivers

Ralph Griffin, Eagle (detail)

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Double Edged

Writer Gary Younge visits ‘Souls Grown Deep like the Rivers: Black Artists from the American South’ and asks how its lessons might be brought closer to home.
Emma Dabiri standing in front of ‘Stars of Everything’, 2004, by Thornton Dial, in ‘Souls Grown Deep like the Rivers: Black Artists from the American South’ at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, from 17 March - 18 June 2023

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Video: inside ‘Souls Grown Deep like the Rivers’ with Emma Dabiri

Writer and broadcaster Emma Dabiri picks four powerful works by Black artists from the American South that you can see in our current exhibition.
Gallery view of 'Souls Grown Deep like the Rivers' at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, from 17 March – 18 June 2023, showing Ralph Griffin, Eagle (1988)

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Video: unboxing ‘Souls Grown Deep like the Rivers’

Watch our team install composite sculptures and precious quilts as we prepare for our latest exhibition.
Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Africa (detail)

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Like ancient, dusky rivers

As we prepare to open ‘Souls Grown Deep like the Rivers: Black Artists from the American South’, writer Yinka Elujoba reflects on the extraordinary creativity of some works in the show.
Thornton Dial, Stars of Everything (detail)

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Start here: Souls Grown Deep like the Rivers

Before you visit our latest exhibition, find out about the unique artistic traditions the artists in ‘Souls Grown Deep like the Rivers’ forged and the enormous social and economic challenges they confronted.