Slavery and the British Art Sector Exhibition. (Concept 1)

So i'm wanting to do something that conceptually is more sustantibal than a few prints illustrating the links between the brutality of slavery and the wealth of those who benefited from it and how that benefited the arts sector of britain. To do this I'm going to be proposing a exhibition that explores the direct and indirect ways that Britain's art sector benefited from slavery. I'll be using two prints that I will be creating to be headers for the two different sections of this exhibition.

One image is a parallel comparison between those taken into slavery and those financially benefiting from it. This section of the exhibition explores the more indirect ways that slavery helped benefit the art sector such as how the financial boom created as a result of slavery. With this I would use aim to work with those at    to create a collection of all the slave owners who donated/ financed the arts through gallery donations or commissioning artists for portraiture.

Or I would have diagrams depicting why slavery benefited the art sector (class, and disposable wealth) displayed as a life cycle similar to photosynthesis in its use of little words and iconography.*


The reason for this is being able to see the visual links between the boom in the british art sector and slavery is very important for people to understand and knowing that the way the art sector profited from slavery doesn't have to be direct to make it any less complicit.

The second print will be the title for the other side of the exhibition which will look at the more direct links between slavery and the art industry.
Henry tate's  bust made out of sugar melt water onto it melts to reveal tate gallery. This process would only happen once on opening day, however it would be documented via video to be replayed for later visitors.  Influenced by Kara Walker's Sugar statue it looks at the direct link between henry tates sugar wealth and slavery and how this lead to the creation of the tate and those that came after it.

*unlikely to be taken forward. Complex and muddy in concept/theory