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Work in Focus – Alejandra Carles-Tolra, Untitled from the series Where We Belong, 2017

In the first room of our exhibition, above a (rather wonky) mantelpiece, hangs Alejandra Carles-Tolra’s beautiful photograph from the series Where We Belong. Alejandra Carles-Tolra, Untitled from Where we belong, 2017. Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London. © the artist. Originally commissioned through the Jerwood/Photoworks Awards, supported by Jerwood Charitable Foundation and Photoworks. Where We…

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Work in Focus – Lubaina Himid, Cotton.com, 2002

Lubaina Himid’s Cotton.com (2002) is an absolute show stopper and captures your attention as soon as you enter the exhibition space of GENERATIONS. Made up of 84 individual patterned oil paintings and a brass strip, it is a mesmerizing work that deserves a closer look. Installation Shot: Cotton.com in GENERATIONS: Connecting Across Time and Place…

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Work in Focus – Donald Rodney, In the House of My Father, 1997

As part of the blog for our exhibition, we wanted to focus on a few works and discuss them in more detail. The first work in focus – which has featured as the main image for our poster, leaflet and postcards this year – is Donald Rodney’s In the House of My Father (1997). This…

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Exhibition Opening

Wow – what a truly great evening celebrating the opening of the exhibition with friends, family, and other (special) guests on Friday night. We were so glad that Deborah Swallow, Appau Jnr Boakye- Yiadom and Helen Cammock – and other special guests – could join us to inaugurate the exhibition, giving us also a chance…

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Exhibition Process – Installation

GENERATIONS: Connecting Across Time and Place is now open – but how did it become the space you can visit today? Find out with a sneak peek of the installation process in this post. That’s it: we did it. Our annual class exhibition  is now open. As part of the installation team, I could not…

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