
CONVERSATIONS: ON RESISTANCE
Bianca Wilson and Marcus MacDonald discuss folk arts, gourd banjos and de-colonialising the institution.
ConversationsBarbara Walker’s ‘Vanishing Point 29 (Duyster)’ is the pushing off point for a conversation on the ways cultural institutions merely sustain and reproduce outmoded approaches to cultural stewardship, despite claims of inclusion and diversity.
Bianca Wilson is a banjo player, musician and one half of folk band The Pegwells and Marcus MacDonald is a grower, queer punk, and member of Land In Our Names collective (LION).
Image: ‘Vanishing Point 29 (Duyster)’, Barbara Walker. Graphite on paper, 2021. Courtesy the artist and Cristea Roberts Gallery, London. © Barbara Walker, 2025.
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Bianca Wilson and Marcus MacDonald’s discussion