About the project

This research grant builds on the work of the Race, Empire & the Pre-Raphaelites research group, and will shape plans for a new display as part of the phased reopening of Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery (BMAG). Proposals for this display will rethink and re-present 19th-century art and design from Birmingham’s internationally-significant collections for audiences in the city and beyond, and will integrate historic material with works by contemporary artists of colour, creating illuminating connections and dialogues

Hardeep Dhindsa is a researcher and practitioner interested in the visual culture of the British Empire. His doctoral work looked at the relationship between Whiteness and classical antiquity in eighteenth-century Britain, and he has worked with galleries across the UK to reinterpret objects and better understand the complex and traumatic legacies of empire. As an illustrator, he uses colour to critique the whitewashing of classical sculptures, and he has exhibited his work in the UK and Italy.

Links

• Hardeep S Dhindsa – Art Historian // Classicist // Illustrator