{"id":55634,"date":"2018-01-30T01:05:59","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T01:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55634"},"modified":"2018-01-30T01:05:59","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T01:05:59","slug":"phoebe-collings-james-the-artist-and-model-taking-on-tokenism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55634","title":{"rendered":"Phoebe Collings-James: the artist and model taking on tokenism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/the-chain\/2017\/nov\/14\/phoebe-collings-james-the-artist-and-model-taking-on-tokenism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Phoebe Collings-James: the artist and model taking on tokenism<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/the-chain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Chain<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/the-chain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Guardian<\/a><br \/>\n2017-11-14<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/the-chain\/2017\/nov\/14\/phoebe-collings-james-the-artist-and-model-taking-on-tokenism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/f4e839fe790c96225d7a06957b4d1b70a6b9d6af\/1_0_2447_1468\/master\/2447.jpg?w=860&amp;q=20&amp;auto=format&amp;usm=12&amp;fit=max&amp;dpr=2&amp;s=6cfa310853025f72918ac4c5a533c252\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The British artist\u2019s paintings, video and sculpture explore desire, sexuality and violence. She\u2019s the second link in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/the-chain\/2017\/nov\/13\/the-chain-a-fashion-experiment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Chain<\/a>. Scroll down to see images from her day<\/em><\/p>\n<p>British artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoebecollingsjames.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Phoebe Collings-James<\/a> grew up a poster girl for teen-zine, mixed-race models. But rather than being the break-out star, she broke out of the industry. She was 18 and increasingly uncomfortable with the casting process and lingerie shows under the male gaze. \u201cAs a model, I have often felt very conflicted as a reluctant acceptable face of blackness,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/London_Borough_of_Hackney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hackney<\/a>-born, Goldsmiths graduate in fine art told <em>Nylon<\/em> magazine last year. \u201cI have been used as a token black woman purely because I am <a href=\"https:\/\/nylon.com\/articles\/phoebe-collings-james-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u2018not too dark\u2019<\/a>.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/the-chain\/2017\/nov\/14\/phoebe-collings-james-the-artist-and-model-taking-on-tokenism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uploads.guim.co.uk\/2017\/11\/08\/Phoebe_Yogaaaa.gif\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/the-chain\/2017\/nov\/14\/phoebe-collings-james-the-artist-and-model-taking-on-tokenism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British artist\u2019s paintings, video and sculpture explore desire, sexuality and violence. She\u2019s the second link in The Chain. Scroll down to see images from her day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,8,10],"tags":[17067,2103],"class_list":["post-55634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-phoebe-collings-james","tag-the-guardian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55634"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55636,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55634\/revisions\/55636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}