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‘The Time is Always Now': Black artists shine at London's National Portrait Gallery's latest show
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22/02/2024
Paintings, drawing and sculptures created by Black artists come together at London's National Portrait Gallery as part of a major exploration into the portrayal of the Black figure in contemporary art.
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We're in a period right now where black artists are working at a level of
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extraordinary proficiency and I've been celebrated and recognized
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internationally at a level we've never seen in history before.
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So the show is partly about marking this moment but it's also about
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looking further than this. It's also about
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looking through the eyes of the artists and the subjects in their work. It's also
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an invitation into inquiry, an invitation into
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what does black experience, black lived experience, black identity and being and
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presence and history, what does this look like?
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I've got two paintings here on display at the National Portrait Gallery today.
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One of them is called Harriet Tubman en route to Canada and the other one is
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called Nanny of the Maroons' Fifth Act of Mercy
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and essentially they're sort of portrayals of two historic
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black women, one from the Nanny of the Maroons from the 18th century Jamaica
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and Harriet Tubman from 19th century America and both of them were sort of
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activists, actually military commanders in the struggle against
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slavery.
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One could say that particularly since the
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the murder of George Floyd and you know the widespread protests which took place
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in the Black Lives Matter context, definitely the questions of race and
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representation have sort of moved higher up the agenda of media and
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culture but I think that we're still at the
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the very earliest stages.
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