About Watch Us Lead: In Conversation with Christopher Samuel

Join us at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery while artist Christopher Samuel shines a light on unseen members of our communities, revealing the hidden experiences of Black and disabled people whose lives have gone unrecorded and successes uncelebrated, both historically and now.

This conversation reunites Christopher with Rebekah Mall, who took part in his Watch Us Lead project at Birmingham Museums.

They talk with Dr Ian Sergeant, Senior Curator (Global Majority Collections), about their lived experience as disabled people of colour, and how Christopher‘s new work for Birmingham’s collection addresses a significant gap in representation and reveals hidden stories.

Christopher Samuel

Christopher Samuel is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice is rooted in identity and disability politics.
Often echoing the many facets of his own lived experience as a Black disabled man, his work tells stories, highlighting the often unseen experiences of his day to day life and those of others in similar circumstances.
His practice includes small detailed ink drawings, film, print, audio, research, and large installations.

Samuel works alongside galleries, museums, archives and other institutions to address missing representation in our cultural spaces.

Rebekah Mall

Rebekah is a South Asian woman navigating life after an acquired brain injury. She explores identity, loss, and the process of questioning societal expectations to redefine who she is on her own terms.