Rasheed Araeen is an artist, writer and the founder of both Third Text (London) and Third Text Asia (Karachi). He left Karachi for London in 1964 and has lived there since. In 1965 he pioneered minimalist sculpture in Britain. He began writing in 1975 and then publishing his own art journals: Black Phoenix (1978), Third Text (1987) and Third Text Asia (2008). He has curated two important exhibitions: ‘The Essential Black Art’ (1987) and ‘The Other Story’ (Hayward Gallery, 1989). He is now directing a project that will produce the most comprehensive and inclusive history of art in postwar Britain, ‘The Whole Story: Art in Postwar Britain’.