Image of the Black at Tate Britain

Autumn 2026 Tours

Two hour  unscripted tour of Tate Britain to reveal the Black presence in the collection from the sixteenth century to the present day.

Tate Britain

<blockquote><a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/humphry-christiaan-van-molhoop-t13796" title="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/humphry-christiaan-van-molhoop-t13796" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Cover image</a> Ozias Humphry (c1795) Christiaan van Molhoop (detail)</blockquote> Tate Britain is the home of British art from 1500 to the present day where we see Black presence move from the object of economic capital to creators of cultural capital mirroring the changing position of Black folk in British society.The cultural movement in Britain from the Enlightenment to Romanticism is tracked as seen in how British art focusing on its Black presence developed over that period including the response to slavery in the eighteenth century to feminist and gay art of the twentieth century.If you want to underatnd the role of the Black presence in British art then this tour is for you.Your tour guide is<a href="https://about.me/michaelohajuru/" title="https://about.me/michaelohajuru/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> Michael I. Ohajuru DUniv, FRSA</a><a href="https://veronese1515.blogspot.com/2024/03/honorary-doctorate-duniv-from-open.html" title="https://veronese1515.blogspot.com/2024/03/honorary-doctorate-duniv-from-open.html" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Honoray Doctorate from Open Univeristy (2024)</a>, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (2022), Senior Fellow of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (2017), Honours degrees in Physics (1974) and Art History (2008). Blogs, writes and speaks regularly on the Black presence in Renaissance Europe. Has spoken at the National Gallery, Tate Britain, British Library, National Archives and the Victoria Albert Museum. Founder of <a href="http://bit.ly/The_IBLG" title="http://bit.ly/The_IBLG" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Image of the Black in London Gallerie</a>s a series of gallery tours , the Project Director and Chief Evangelist of <a href="http://JohnBlanke.com" title="http://JohnBlanke.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The John Blanke Project</a>: an Art and Archive project celebrating John Blanke the Black trumpeter to courts of Henry VII and Henry VIII, co-convener of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies <a href="https://blackbritishhistory.co.uk" title="https://blackbritishhistory.co.uk" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">What’s Happening in Black British History </a>series of workshops and founder member of the <a href="https://thepb2podcast.wixsite.com/website" title="https://thepb2podcast.wixsite.com/website" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Black Presence in British Portraiture</a> network<a href="https://twitter.com/michael1952" title="https://twitter.com/michael1952" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">@Michael1952</a>

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