Joy Gregory: Catching Flies with Honey nationality-Estonian All that glitters ain’t gold

All that glitters ain’t gold points to influences from Rap and Hip Hop

references similar visual phenomena: dark spots on the sun’s surface or a sensory blast on the retina from staring into bright light

Tate Liverpool (2009)

Moira Roth

(Middlesbrough

Joy Gregory: Catching Flies with Honey nationality-Estonian All that glitters ain’t goldUsing visual seduction to draw audiences into deeper conversations, Joy Gregorys work challenges reductive expectations around what Black or feminist art should look like; asserting instead a need for nuance. This richly illustrated monograph surveys Joy Gregorys forty year career. Working across photography, video, installation, textile and text, Joy Gregory foregrounds themes of cultural memory, language loss, beauty, fantasy and diasporic identity.