In Tate Liverpool
- Artist
- Njideka Akunyili Crosby born 1983
- Medium
- Acrylic paint, transfer print on paper, coloured pencil and pastel on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 1925 × 3648 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased with funds provided by Michael and Sukey Novogratz (Tate Americas Foundation) 2020
- Reference
- T15718
Display caption
Made for Brixton Underground station, this scene imagines a gathering of the grandchildren of the ‘Windrush generation’ who moved to Britain following the 1948 British Nationality Act. The patterned walls, radiogram and hanging pictures are reminiscent of ‘front rooms’ they may associate with their grandparents. The wall imagery derives from photography in Brixton’s Black Cultural Archives, Including portraits of Dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson and activist Olive Morris. The scene is not simply celebratory: 2018 news of the Windrush scandal’s deportation of commonwealth citizens plays on television.
Gallery label, January 2022
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