Join artist Karen McLean in conversation with Jessica Taylor

Free but booking essential.

Ar’n’t I a Woman! is an exhibition by Trinidadian artist Karen McLean. Through her artistic practice, she has consistently researched and referenced her Caribbean upbringing and heritage in evocative sculptural installations concerned with issues of identity, ‘home’ and post-colonial cultures. This exhibition reveals Karen’s ongoing interest in the history, folklore and material cultures of Caribbean colonial history and its close relationship with slavery. Her ongoing interest in the roles of women within these histories is evident as she draws on a long tradition of gendered activities such as weaving, stitching and the dying of fabrics. Her powerful and complex works explore the symbolic and historic weight of materials and interrogates their relationship to British colonial legacies.

https://thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk/exhibition/karen-mclean-arnt-i-a-woman/

Image credit: Karen McLean, Silence me not…me ah rise (detail), 2020, mixed media. Courtesy the artist.