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Decolonising British Art: Decentering, Resituating and Reviewing Artworks and Collections .

UAL Decolonising Arts Institute in partnership with Birmingham Museums Trust (BMT)

11 November 2020

The third seminar of the Decolonising British Art series explores practical approaches to challenging colonialism embedded in museum practice. Focusing on the formative 2017 exhibition, The Past is Now: Birmingham and the British Empire, the event explores the ongoing research arising from the project, sharing reflections on curatorial strategies, artistic interventions, and institutional change.

Seminar series curated by susan pui san lok and facilitated by Gaylene Gould. Videos edited by Adam Razni. With thanks to Clare Pattenden and the UAL Creative Computing Institute.

The seminar series was funded by and forms part of the programme of the British Art Network, led and supported by Tate and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, with additional public funding provided by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
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Speakers:
Rebecca Bridgman and Janine Eason, Birmingham Museums Trust
Rachael Minott, independent researcher and curator
Sarah Maple, artist
Farwa Moledina, artist
Keith Piper, artist and Associate Professor at Middlesex University

Farwa Moledina is a Muslim artist who spent her formative years growing up in the Middle East.  Moledina has worked with galleries in the West Midlands including Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, the Midlands Art Centre, Ikon Gallery and New Art Gallery Walsall. In 2020, she exhibited in Lahore as part of a collateral exhibition for the Lahore Biennale organised by Ikon Gallery and Aisha Khalid and showed at Grand-Union Gallery in Birmingham. She is currently showing work at the Herbert Museum and Art Gallery.

Gaylene Gould is a Creative Director and consultant who designs interactive art projects and spaces that generously connect us with ourselves, each other and the world through her company The Space To Come.  Her projects have been commissioned by and performed at the Tate, V&A, Arts Catalyst, Vivid Projects, Selfridges, h club, Moderna Museet  Sweden and BAM, New York. She is currently curating Brilliant Routes for Clore Leadership, a support space for Black Asian and ethnically diverse cultural leaders. 

Janine Eason leads the marketing, digital, learning and community engagement teams to grow, diversify and engage Birmingham Museums’ visitors with the collection and inspire learning and enjoyment across 9 venues. She leads the Museum and Art Gallery and plays a key role in shaping the museum’s redevelopment plans to attract Birmingham’s young and diverse population.

Keith Piper currently works in the Fine Art Department at Middlesex University. His creative practice responds to specific social and political issues, historical relationships and geographical sites. Adopting a research driven approach, and using a variety of media, his work has ranged from painting, through photography and installation to a use of digital media, video and computer based interactivity.

Rachael Minott is a Jamaican-born artist, curator and researcher. She researches Caribbean and British national representation and her practice primarily reflects on the Jamaican art historical canon alongside the region’s contemporary issues. She is the Inclusion and Change Manager at The National Archives and a Trustee of the Museums Association where she chairs the Decolonising Guidance Working Group.

Dr Rebecca Bridgman is Curatorial and Exhibitions Manager at Birmingham Museums’ Trust. She was the Trust's first specialist Curator of Middle East & South Asian Arts. Chair of the national subject specialist network for Islamic Art and Material Culture, her curatorial work is driven by experiences leading Birmingham’s curatorial projects including: The Past is Now: Birmingham and the British Empire and the audience-focused acquisition project Collecting Birmingham.

Sarah Maple has a BA in Fine Art from Kingston University. Recent solo exhibitions were held at: The Untitled Space, New York (2019); New Art Exchange, Nottingham (2017); The Cob Gallery, London (2015). She was awarded the New Sensation Art Prize in 2007 and was recently commissioned new work by The Baltic, Imago Mundi and Sky Arts. Her recent practice has focused on the disturbing parallels between the political climate in the US and the UK looking at themes of fear, division, toxic masculinity, and xenophobia.

Dr susan pui san lok is an artist, writer, Professor in Contemporary Art and Director of the UAL Decolonising Arts Institute. From 2015 to 2018, she was Co-Investigator on the AHRC-funded project, Black Artists & Modernism, led by UAL in partnership with Middlesex University