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  • Hew Locke: What have we here? – A review of the British Museum exhibition examining Empire and its afterlives

    Hew Locke: What have we here? – A review of the British Museum exhibition examining Empire and its afterlives

    Carol Ann Dixon’s exhibition review of ‘Hew Locke: What have we here?’ – a thought-provoking examination of British Empire history, considered through the thematic assemblage of selected artefacts, archival documents and contemporary sculptural installations. This collaborative research initiative developed over two years, co-curated by Hew Locke and Indra Khanna.

  • Documentary Film on 19th Century British Portraiture

    Documentary Film on 19th Century British Portraiture

    The portraiture documentary “Who is ‘The Black Boy’?” (2024) was recorded at the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool. This c.10-minute film features piece-to-camera narratives discussing an 1844 painting, co-presented by producer Kate Haselden, curators Miles Greenwood and Alex Scott, painting conservator Rebecca Kench and cultural geographer Dr Carol Ann Dixon.

  • Undoing 2007; Preparing for 2038: Reflections on the Making Freedom Exhibition and Emancipation 1838 Project

    Undoing 2007; Preparing for 2038: Reflections on the Making Freedom Exhibition and Emancipation 1838 Project

    Dr Carol Ann Dixon’s illustrated review of the heritage conference and community conversation, “Undoing 2007; Preparing for 2038,” held at The Exchange, Birmingham, on 1 June 2024. This interdisciplinary gathering of researchers, memory workers, community advocates and rights campaigners was convened and chaired by Dr Nathaniel Adam Tobias Coleman (University of Birmingham).

  • Entangled Pasts, 1768–Now: Art, Colonialism and Change – An Illustrated Review

    Entangled Pasts, 1768–Now: Art, Colonialism and Change – An Illustrated Review

    Dr Carol Ann Dixon’s illustrated review of a curated selection of long-standing and recently acquired holdings of fine art portraits, drawings, archival documents, rare books, sculptures and cultural artefacts from the Royal Academy’s extensive collections. The presentation juxtaposes c.100 thematically arranged and grouped assemblages that visualise the “Entangled Pasts” and legacies of enslavement and resistance…

  • Documenting Joy, Resilience and Resistance in the African Diaspora – Photographer Armet Francis in Conversation with Mark Sealy and Gary Younge

    Documenting Joy, Resilience and Resistance in the African Diaspora – Photographer Armet Francis in Conversation with Mark Sealy and Gary Younge

    Dr Carol Ann Dixon’s review of the gallery session “Documenting Joy, Resilience and Resistance in the African Diaspora” (Autograph, London, 18 January 2024). This discursive event featured an exhibition-based presentation by curator Dr Mark Sealy OBE, in conversation with Jamaican-British photographer Armet Francis (b. 1945, Santa Cruz) and award-winning British author and academic Gary Younge.