On 29 November 2024 to celebrate the Gallery’s acquisition of her portrait of community campaigners, Eric and Jessica Elleisse Huntley (née Carroll), artist Sharon Walters will be in conversation with curator Péjú Oshin at the Gallery.
Eric and the late Jessica Huntley transformed the world around them through a shared commitment to publishing, community action and justice. Pioneering Black political and social activists and radical book publishers born in what then was, British Guiana arrived in England in the 1950s and wasted no time before becoming active in political and social issues relating to the British African-Caribbean community’s in and around London. For over 50 years the Huntley’s participated in many significant grassroots campaigns.
Walters and Oshin will discuss the portrait and how it was developed for the National Portrait Gallery’s Citizen UK project, considering how the work thematically links to her wider work, style and influences.
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