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In the House of my Father

RODNEY, Donald Gladstone

© Donald Gladstone Rodney/Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
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Donald Rodney was a prominent figure in Britain's BLK Art Group - a collective of young Black British Artists who came together in the 1980s to explore what art was, could be and how they could inspire others through their work. This is one of Rodney’s last works, and one of his best known. In the artist’s hand sits a small sculpture made from his skin, which had been removed during treatment for sickle cell anaemia. An inherited genetic condition, it is particularly prevalent in people of African or Caribbean descent. A moving self-portrait, the work retains an ambiguous power. It carries profound messages around inherited experience.


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Collection

Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales

Item Number

NMW A 15878

Creation/Production

RODNEY, Donald Gladstone
Date: 1996-1997

Acquisition

Gift, 1/9/2000
Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 2000

Measurements

Height (cm): 122
Width (cm): 153

Techniques

chromogenic print

Material

photograph
aluminium

Location

Gallery 21

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  • Allegory
  • Art And Design Movements
  • Black Identity
  • Communities And Society
  • Fine Art
  • Identity
  • Medicine And Healthcare
  • Mythology And Fantasy
  • People
  • Photograph
  • Post 1945
  • Rodney, Donald Gladstone
  • Self-Portrait
  • Works On Paper

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