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Baroness Floella Benjamin

By  Colin Graham 2020
Floella Benjamin was born in Trinadad, one of six children. She moved to London in 1960.
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Paul Robeson

Olaudah Equiano

This art work challenges notions of form and content by creating a dictionary definition of its subject. Because the obvious routes of a pictorial representation have been avoided, it allows the viewer the opportunity to reflect on the subject in a new way.

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