Keith Piper in The Art Newspaper

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Ben Luke and Louisa Buck, The Art Newspaper, June 4, 2026
A cluster of works from across Piper’s career, including pieces made in the crucial 1980s period in which he was a founding member of the BLK Art Group. Since that time, Piper’s work has remained remarkably consistent in using a range of media, including digital technologies, to explore systemic racism and narratives of Blackness amid wider social conditions. The exhibition’s title relates to his most recent works, where he makes reference to Operation Raise the Colours, a recent campaign where the display of English and British flags, purportedly representing patriotism, thinly masks growing far-right xenophobia in the UK.