In Black and White: Prints and Posters from Africa and the Diaspora

November 2014 - June 2015

Gavin Jantjes, Freedom Hunters, 1977, screenprint with collage. Museum no. E.333-1982, © Gavin Jantjes

Gavin Jantjes, Freedom Hunters, 1977, screenprint with collage. Museum no. E.333-1982, © Gavin Jantjes

Painting, Room 88A & Prints & Drawings, Room 90
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This display features a variety of powerful graphic images from the 1960s to the present – prints, posters, books and ephemera – by notable artists as well as anonymous activists. Some works address social and political issues head on, others reflect their time and place more subtly, but they all confirm print as a vital medium for personal expression, protest, and cultural exchange.

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Black Style

Black Style

Originally published to accompany the Black British Style exhibition in the Contemporary space at the V&A in Autumn 2004. The highly distinctive s…

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Event - Indian Arrival Day

Fri 24 May 2013 18:30

SPECIAL EVENT: Explore the aftermath of the transatlantic slave trade, the growth of material prosperity as a result of the Industrial Revolution, and mass migration of an indentured labour force from the Indian subcontinent to east and south Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific.

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