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Meet the Artist: Karen McLean

24 Apr 2025 1-2pm

The Fitzwilliam Museum
Cambridge CB2 1RB

Overview

British contemporary artist Karen McLean talks about her powerful work Ar’n’t I a Woman! (2021), on display in our Rise Up exhibition. Rooted in historical research, McLean’s installations, sound and moving image works incorporate evocative and symbolic materials such as sugar, blue soap and hessian bags and interrogate the complex legacies of colonialism.

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