In August during Lockdown, the New Hall Art Collection held a Black Feminist Artists tour in collaboration with the Murray Edwards College MCR. In December, still in the depths of pandemic-induced indoorsness, I met with Harriet Loffler the Collection’s curator to discuss the importance of raising the profile of BME women artists in a world that has long ignored them, intentionally or otherwise. As Loffler pointed out, instances of white people leaving out the experiences of a whole group of people occur worryingly frequently.
“The vibrancy of the image is an anathema to the waxy portraits of long past white men that hang in the dining halls of many other Cambridge colleges”