The Prisoners of Love (PoL) project aims to connect UK collection items with their trans-national home peoples and bring emerging artists from diasporic communities in the UK, curators and researchers into conversation, to work responsively with complex histories and material practices, opening out extra-institutional art and archival practices in the form of artwork, story and theory.

The project focuses on the relevance of indigenous knowledges; approaches to the archival process in relation to displaced or marginalised people and contexts; and innovative approaches to archiving, specifically through visual arts practice. It works with collaborators from Blackfoot Territory; Ghana;  India; UK. It aims to catalyse under-represented artists’ careers and work towards meaningful change in collections, and to connect and strengthen links between people who are geographically separated but culturally related, past ancestors, present day and future generations.

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Accra, Ghana; Mootookakio’ssin Project, Treaty 7 Territory, Canada; Mumbai, India; London, Oxford & East Sussex, UK

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Project team: Louisa Minkin, Lennon Mhishi, Johanna Zetterstrom-SharpIan, Ian Dawson