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Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, baritone Peter Brathwaite has thoughtfully researched and reimagined more than one hundred artworks featuring portraits of black sitters – all posted to social media. The results of this project are now the subject of a book published by Getty. Rediscovering Black Portraiture (released Spring 2023) collects more than fifty of Brathwaite’s most intriguing re-creations.
Join Peter for this In Conversation event about his book, illustrated by projections of his re-creations of representations of black subjects in Western art, Caribbean Folk Songs, and songs by composers including Charles Dibdin, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Hanns Eisler.
At the end of this lecture recital there will be an opportunity to purchase a signed copy of Peter Brathwaite’s book Rediscovering Black Portraiture.
“These mirror images with their uncanny resemblances traverse space and time, spotlighting the black lives that have been silenced by the canon of western art, while also inviting us to interrogate the present.”
– The Times
A Leeds Lieder Festival 2023 event.
Unwaged/Disabled
£13
U30/Students
Free
Start time
1pm
Duration
1 hour
Please note that Leeds Conservatoire is the Box Office for this event.
Phone 0113 222 3434
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