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Video: a closer look at 'The First Supper'
Published on 26 March 2024
Artist Tavares Strachan reimagines Leonardo's 'The Last Supper'.
"It talks about mankind's evolutionary origins in Africa"
Artist Tavares Strachan discusses his monumental bronze sculpture The First Supper on display in our courtyard.
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Entangled Pasts, 1768–now: Art, Colonialism and Change
J.M.W. Turner and Ellen Gallagher. Joshua Reynolds and Yinka Shonibare. John Singleton Copley and Hew Locke. Past and present collide in one powerful exhibition.