Donald Rodney (1961-1998) co-founded the BLK Art Group together with fellow artists Keith Piper and Eddie Chambers in London in the early 1980s. Whilst living with sickle cell anaemia, he addressed notions of identity, family, home and ‘Britishness’ as seen through the eyes of the Afro-Caribbean diaspora. Rodney worked in a wide variety of media, including painting, photography, installations and electronic media. In his 1995 Black Audio Film Collective film, Three Songs on Pain, Time and Light, he links his personal experience and illness to wider social problems, including racism, police brutality and apartheid.