Errol Francis
Errol Francis is an artist who received a Distinction in Photography and MA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London. His doctoral research at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, was concerned with Postcolonial Artistic Responses to Museums. Errol is artistic director of Culture&, a charity based in London and Stoke-on-Trent, which works to open up the UK arts and heritage sectors to a more diverse workforce and audience. He is Honorary Lecturer at University of Exeter, Visiting Lecturer at University College London, Goldsmiths University of London, Sotheby’s Institute of Art and Honorary Visiting Fellow at the University of Leicester School of Museum Studies.
Errol has created a publication, Citizen James (1857 - 1923), the Violent Collector, in response to the Harrison collection,
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From Local to Global Exhibition work
Errol Francis
James in Union with the Beasts, 2022
Giclée print
841 x 1188 mm
A treatment of the UK flag formed of photographs of James Harrison and his big game kills overlayed with quotations from Shakespeare’s play The Tempest (Act 1, Scene 2). Shakespeare's play is a tale of shipwreck and magic featuring Prospero, the Duke of Milan and Caliban, a slave, who encounter one another on a Caribbean island. The work has been widely interpreted as an allegory of European colonialism and is used here as a reflection of Harrison’s relationship to the indigenous people and natural environment of Africa.