University Arts London: Decolonising Arts Institute Research Residency Awarded to Michelle Williams Gamaker

Work has started on 3 Decolonising Arts Institute residency programmes that will introduce new decolonial interventions into the archives and collections of University of the Arts London (UAL), iniva (Institute for International Visual Arts) and 3 major UK art collections: Arts Council Collection, British Council Collection and Manchester Art Gallery Collections.

Five artists/researchers in residence are working with the Institute and partners during 2021, with a sixth researcher expected to join in June. Across the 3 residencies, they will each examine and interrogate specific objects, materials, documents or aspects of these archives and collections. Their outputs will be presented and published at the end of the year.

​Michelle’s project will investigate ‘the role of art education and its impact on students of colour in shaping self-worth, belonging and identity’. With exclusion in mind, Michelle will explore 2 collections in particular: the Henry Moore Archive and the Chelsea College of Arts Archive, both stored at Chelsea Collections and Archives.

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