Mukhtar Dar is a Pakistani-born[1] photographer, painter, filmmaker and activist. He became a founding member of the Sheffield Asian Youth Movement in the 1980s in England, and later joined the Birmingham Asian Youth Movement.[2] Dar has served as Director of Arts at the Drum, an intercultural arts centre in Birmingham,[1] and in around 2008 served as Director of Arts of the Birmingham-based agency Sampad Arts.[3]

The Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, which in 2022 displayed a number of photographs and film clips by Dar in a pop-up exhibition about the history of the United Kingdom's Asian and African Caribbean communities' struggles with racism,[4][5] dubbed Dar "the unofficial artist of the largest grassroots movement in the history of the UK's South Asian communities."[2]

References

  1. 1 2 "Indian Horizons". Indian Horizons. Vol. 56. Indian Council for Cultural Relations. 2009. Originally from Pakistan, Mukhtar Dar was trained as a painter and filmmaker before becoming Director of Arts at the Drum.
  2. 1 2 "Blacklash: Racism and the Struggle for Self-Defence". BirminghamMuseums.org.uk. Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. Archived from the original on 10 October 2022. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  3. ↑ Godiwala, Dimple, ed. (2006). Alternatives Within the Mainstream: British Black and Asian Theatres. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 170. ISBN 978-1904303664.
  4. ↑ "Black History Month: Birmingham museums announce events". BBC. 3 October 2022. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  5. ↑ McCallister, Robson (5 October 2022). "The Black History Month events that are taking place in Birmingham". Birmingham Mail. Retrieved 10 October 2022.


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