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Reframing Picton: In Conversation with Gesiye & Laku Neg

Join us for an afternoon in conversation with the project team behind the critically acclaimed Reframing Picton exhibition!

Sat, 27 Jan 2024. 15:00 – 17:00 GMT

National Museum Cardiff

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Unpacking the colonial narrative around a portrait of Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Picton, governor of Trinidad 1798-1803.

Get closer to the artists Gesiye & Mary-Anne of Laku Neg Collective, joining the conversation digitally from Trinidad.

Reframing Picton is the result of a partnership between Amgueddfa Cymru and the SSAP Youth Leadership Network.

Gesiye is a multi-disciplinary artist living and working in Trinidad & Tobago. She creates documentary photographs, films, tattoos, illustrations and performance to explore embodiment and storytelling as forms of liberation.

Laku Neg is an artist-run company that promotes expressions of African diaspora knowledge. The collective is represented by Trinidadian artists who live and work in Wales.

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