Rediscovering Black Portraiture

Opera singer and artist Peter Brathwaite discusses his work recreating more than one hundred artworks featuring Black sitters, including 'Francis Williams, The Scholar of Jamaica', part of the 'Between Two Worlds' display now on at the V&A.

Talk
  • Friday, 6 October 2023
  • V&A South Kensington
  • £10.00 - £12.00
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  • Friday, 6 October 2023

  • V&A South Kensington

    Cromwell Road
    London, SW7 2RL

  • The Lydia and Manfred Gorvy Lecture Theatre

  • For Members

    and general public; general booking opens Friday 25 August

  • Tickets cost £10.00 - £12.00

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Join us for an extraordinary journey through representations of Black subjects in Western art, from Medieval Europe to the present day, as reimagined in Brathwaite’s series and accompanying book, Rediscovering Black Portraiture (Getty Publications).

In conversation with senior curator of Paintings and Drawings Jenny Gaschke, the talk will delve into his playful and provocative juxtapositions that allow us to reimagine agency, representation, and embodiment.

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