Publication
Coventry : Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, 2016
Collections
Notes
An exhibition guide to accompany Korabra by Gavin Jantjes, a display in partnership with Black Artists and Modernism at the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum in 2016. The display was of four of the seven works that form a series large-scale paintings by South African artist Gavin Jantjes (born 1948). The Korabra paintings were made on location in 1986 during a residency at the Coventry West Indian Association, the paintings explore the transatlantic slave trade.
This exhibition is one of a series of interventions around public art collections in the UK carried out as part of the Black Artists and Modernism project.
This exhibition is one of a series of interventions around public art collections in the UK carried out as part of the Black Artists and Modernism project.