City Gallery Exhibition Archive
Crossing the Waters
19th January – 1st March
‘Crossing the Waters’ takes its central metaphor from the transatlantic slave trade. Yinka Shonibare’s model of a rigged schooner encased in a vitrine, The Wanderer, becomes the unsettling centrepiece for this touring exhibition curated by Alchemy. Juxtaposing works by internationally acclaimed artists such as Chris Ofili, Uzo Egonu, Tam Joseph, Keith Piper, Ingrid Pollard, Sonia Boyce, Isaac Julien, Hew Locke and Carrie Mae Weems, this exhibition brings together four decades of collecting works by African diaspora artists for Bradford Museums, Galleries and Heritage. The works included within the exhibition touch on recurrent themes of departure and return, loss and transcendence, abrasive satire and humour.
This exhibition is part of the national Freedom and Culture Programme commemorating the Bicentenary of the Parliamentary Abolition of the Slave Trade.
A national touring exhibition from Cartwright Hall, Bradford
Landscape Trauma by Ingrid Pollard
PLEASE NOTE: THIS EXHIBITION HAS NOW CLOSED |