Join New York-based Jamaican contemporary artist, academic and award-winning writer Jacqueline Bishop as she talks about her new work Nana (2024), currently on display in our Rise Up exhibition.
Bishop’s sculptural work celebrates the countless unrecorded Jamaican market women of West African heritage whose skills, knowledge and empowerment ‘exemplify resilience and agency’ and helped ‘shape the legacy of Caribbean and African heritage’.
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