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Meet the Artist: Jacqueline Bishop

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

  • 22nd March 2025 - 22nd March 2025
  • 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

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’.

 

Image: Jacqueline Bishop. Photo © Monica McGivern Photography

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Did you know?

Bringing the river to life in raucous style each June, ‘The Bumps’ are a chaotic series of rowing races. In this Cambridge tradition, which dates back to the early 19th Century, boats set out in single file and must catch and touch, or ‘bump’, the boat ahead without being caught by the rowers on their tail.