Donald Locke’s work was featured in the exhibition, Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance, at the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK.
The exhibition aimed to contend with the museum’s history, in which its founder, Richard Fitzwilliam, funded the creation of the museum with a family fortune amassed through the exportation and exploitation of African bodies, the transatlantic slave trade.
As the first of a series of exhibition gallery interventions planned at the museum between 2023-2026, this exhibit showcases stories of black resilience and liberation through artwork and objects from West Africa, the Caribbean, South America, and Europe in order to resist the harmful legacies of oppression that its founder represents while also emphasizing the ways in which artists and individuals created the culture of the Black Atlantic through their resistance to colonial slavery.
The exhibit has received many reviews from different media outlets, including The Guardian, The Financial Times, The Voice, and The Week Magazine, all of which investigate and describe Black Atlantic in its own way.
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Donald Locke’s artwork
Here are the artworks by Donald Locke that were featured in the exhibit:
Photos from the exhibit
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