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CONVERSATIONS: ON PAINTING

Joy Labinjo and Paul Goodwin explore painting and Blackness in the cultural imaginary.

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Artist Joy Labinjo, whose paintings explore her British-Nigerian heritage, and Prof. Paul Goodwin, curator, researcher and educator at University of the Arts London, engage in a conversation about art, painting and the Black Atlantic against a backdrop of the artist’s ‘Portrait of an Eighteenth-century Family’, which hangs in the Fitzwilliam Museum.

 

Image: Joy Labinjo, An Eighteenth-Century Family, 2022, Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge © Joy Labinjo. Courtesy of the Artist and Tiwani Contemporary.

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Artist Joy Labinjo and Prof.Paul Goodwin’s discussion

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I am political because my very existence is politicised, by extension the works are too.

Joy Labinjo

‘Portrait of an Eighteenth-century Family’ was purchased by the Fitzwilliam Museum in 2022 and is on permanent display in the Founder’s Galleries.

Joy Labinjo is an artist. See more of Joy’s work here.

Prof. Paul Goodwin is a curator, researcher and educator, and Director of TrAIN Research Centre (Transnational Art, Identity & Nation) at University of the Arts London. Learn more about Dr Goodwin’s research here.