Jade de Montserrat: Backgrounding Foregrounding

A new commission by Jade de Montserrat spans our main entrance. Working at the intersection of art and activism, she draws on the work of renowned writer Toni Morrison and cultural theorist, philosopher and artist Erin Manning, to speak of defiance, survival and building new worlds together.

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About the artist

Dr. Jade de Montserrat works through performance, drawing, painting, film, installation, sculpture, print and text. Concerned with challenging structures of care in institutions and with the intersection of gender, race, class and colonialism, often in the context of life in rural communities, she makes artworks that explore the vulnerability of bodies, the importance of recording and preserving history and the tactile and sensory qualities of language. She was the recipient of the Stuart Hall Foundation Scholarship supporting her PhD and the development of her work from her Black diasporic perspective in the North of England. Jade is a Tutor at Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, Lecturer in Fine Art at Slade, University College, London and an Associate Lecturer at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London.