Online Talk: 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 at V&A South Kensington
  • V&A South Kensington
  • Past event
+44 (0)20 7942 2000

  • V&A South Kensington

    Cromwell Road
    London, SW7 2RL

  • For Members

    and general public; general booking now open

  • Tickets cost £6.00

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Past Event
Online Talk: Rediscovering Black Portraiture photo


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.

This talk will be held on Zoom and all ticket holders will receive a link to view the morning of the talk.

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