A webinar for museum, gallery and heritage professionals and academics engaged with portrait research, interpretation and display.

How can we use portraiture to unearth erased or invisible histories or challenge colonial narratives? And what role does the radical imagination play in decolonial and intersectional curatorial practices and interpretations of portraiture? This event will engage with the practices of four practitioners who have worked extensively with art museum collections to foreground intersectional identities across race, gender, class and sexuality. We will understand how their practices situate care within their curatorial and learning approaches to foreground invisible and or erased identities, to decentre dominant modes of curation and democratise storytelling.

The Understanding British Portraits professional network is committed to supporting decolonising and anti-racist activity in the sector, through its programme of events, Fellowships and practice-sharing initiatives. We are delighted to present new free online events which will continue to highlight the challenges and possibilities of institutional change, examples of positive, tangible progress and the professional needs of those undertaking this important work.