Visible Skin: Rediscovering the Renaissance through Black Portraiture
Starting in the first COVID-19 lockdown, the opera singer and BBC broadcaster Peter Brathwaite embarked on a Twitter project as part of the #GettyMuseumChallenge: restaging famous paintings with everyday household objects. Peter restaged works that focused specifically on Black portraiture (#BlackPortraiture) using items from his family’s past, and from his cultural heritage in Barbados and Britain.
Peter comments: ‘Rediscovering Black Portraiture is about platforming less dominant voices - spe
Outdoor free exhibition, available to view all day, every day until the 10th December
King’s College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS
Tue 9 Nov 2021