The Fitzwilliam Museum of Art
Trumpington Street
Cambridge
CB2 1RB
February 21, 2025 through June 1, 2025
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Discover the multifaceted history of the fight to end transatlantic slavery through the stories of the people, communities and anti-slavery movements who campaigned for abolition in the face of oppression and opposition.
Bringing together historic artworks and objects in conversation with works by contemporary artists, Rise Up explores the battle to abolish the British slave trade and end enslavement between 1750 and 1850, as well as the aftermath, its legacies and the ongoing struggle for equality and social justice today.
Focusing on the individuals whose contributions were vital to the British abolition story, our latest exhibition shines a light on the often-forgotten Black Georgians and Victorians, and commemorates the resistance leaders and revolutionaries across the Caribbean, Europe and the Americas; from Jamaican freedom fighter, Nanny of the Maroons to Nigerian-born, British-based writer and abolitionist Olaudah Equiano.
PROGRAMMING
Lunchtime Lecture | Meet the Artist: Jacqueline Bishop
Price: ÂŁ10
Date/time: Saturday, March 22, 2025 | 1â2pm
Location: Seminar Room
NEWS & PUBLICATIONS
Work by Postgraduate Researcher Jacqueline Bishop on display at Fitzwilliam Museum and Royal Museums Greenwich | University of Leeds, 2025
âJacqueline Bishop has, over time, consolidated an art practice that has questioned the basis of identity within the Atlantic world. Her work has looked to the barbarity of slavery, but placed it within the everyday and the quotidian, a set of plates, the use of ribbons and textiles. In her work, unexpected juxtapositions force a concentration on the often-hidden realities of the slave trade and the ways in which its normalisation took place in both Europe and the Caribbean. Â Her PhD work has gone further in developing an understanding of the ways in which Jamaican identity is developed from of a patchwork of communities.â
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Published February 2025
Rise Up: Resistance, Revolution, Abolition, edited by Victoria Avery and Wanja Kimani
Catalogue to accompany the exhibition Rise Up: Resistance, Revolution, Abolition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, 21st February to 1st June 2025. The exhibition and catalogue explore the multifaceted history of the fight to end transatlantic slavery through the stories of the people, communities and anti-slavery movements who campaigned for abolition in the face of oppression and opposition. Rise Up explores the battle to abolish the British slave trade and end enslavement between 1750 and 1850, as well as the aftermath, its legacies and the ongoing struggle for equality and social justice today. It brings together historic artworks and objects with works by contemporary artists including  Errol Ross Brewster, François Cauvin, Kimathi Donkor and Joy Labinjo.
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Jacqueline Bishop is an accomplished writer, academic, and visual artist with exhibitions in Belgium, Morocco, Italy, Cape Verde, Niger, USA, and Jamaica. In addition to her role as Clinical Full Professor at New York University, Jacqueline Bishop was a 2020 Dora Maar/Brown Foundation Fellow in France; 2008-2009 Fulbright Fellow in Morocco; and 2009-2010 UNESCO/Fulbright Fellow in Paris. Bishop has received several awards, including the OCM Bocas Award for her book âThe Gymnast & Other Positionâ, The Canute A. Brodhurst Prize for short story writing, The Arthur Schomburg Award for Excellence in the Humanities from New York University, A James Michener Creative Writing Fellowship, as well as several awards from the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission. Jacquelineâs recent ceramicâŻwork consists of brightly colored bone China plates used symbolically in Caribbean homes and explores how they hid the violent legacy of slavery and colonialism in the Atlantic world.
