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Artists announced for The World Reimagined in the Liverpool City Region
The artists creating the designs for the Liverpool City Region’s public art trail as part of The World Reimagined have now been announced.
The ten artists will create the designs for a series of ten large globe structures, creating a public trail that will bring to life the reality and impact of the Transatlantic Trade in Enslaved Africans and invite the public to engage with the dialogue and actions of making racial justice a reality.
There will be a walking trail of five large globes located in and around Liverpool city centre, with a further large globe in a prominent location in Halton, Knowsley, Sefton, St Helens and the Wirral, making up a longer, Liverpool City Region wide trail.
The project has been brought to the region by the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority, which is the main local sponsor and is co-ordinating all activity across the region’s six districts, working with its local authority partners.
The trail will be open from 13 August to 31 October and will provide an enjoyable and though-provoking learning experience for people of all ages. The commissioned artists will create globes responding to the themes ranging from ‘Mother Africa’ and ‘The Reality of Being Enslaved’ to ‘Still We Rise’ and ‘Expanding Soul’.
An example of the World Reimagined work.
Each globe will enable the public to experience, discover and be inspired by art as well as present the opportunity to be part of the discourse around racial justice and what it means to be British.
The Liverpool City Region is one of seven involved across the UK, along with Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Leicester, London, and Swansea.
The artists in the Liverpool City Region will be Sumuyya Khader, Amber Akaunu, Ras Akyem, Fiona Compton, Caroline Daly, Nicola Constantina, Jioni Warner, Amy Bourbon, Kimathi Donkor, Bryony Benge-Abbott.
There will be 103 globe sculptures across the seven cities and each trail will consist of 10 globes: one for each of the nine themes of the Journey of Discovery. The tenth Liverpool City Region globe will be designed by Amber Akauna, a Liverpool born Nigerian-German filmmaker working in cinema, art, and tv to document and explore Black culture, identity, and history, who is working in collaboration with community groups local to the trail.
Steve Rotheram, Mayor of the Liverpool City Region, said:
The trails are the centre of a broader learning and community programme – with schools, community groups, sporting, and cultural institutions from across the Liverpool City Region taking part. In addition to the larger globes more than 30 learning globes will be created.
Councillor Mike Wharton, Liverpool City Region Portfolio Holder for Culture, Tourism and the Visitor Economy, said:
Ashley Shaw Scott Adjaye, Artistic Director of The World Reimagined said:
Open call jury panellist and British Turner Prize-winning painter Chris Ofili CBE said:
The World Reimagined will inspire and create a moment to open imaginations to new possibilities – instil pride in what it means to be Black and British. It will be one of the largest art education projects for racial justice the UK has seen, and the globe sculptures will play an integral role in helping people travel through this Journey of Discovery.
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