Exile and Migration at the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum

Midlands Art Trail

For our 2023 special issue of Midlands Art Papers, Adi Noy has created a trail of nine artworks and material objects featured in Coventry’s Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, centred around the theme of exile and migration.

This trail highlights some of the gallery’s most unique and relevant objects, and explores how different people have expressed their own experiences with migration through diverse creative and innovative media.

  • Adi Noy

Please note: not all objects are on display. To avoid disappointment, please contact Herbert Art Gallery & Museum in advance of your visit: ctm.info@cvlife.co.uk

About Adi Noy

Adi Noy is a Joint Honours Student in English and Philosophy at the University of Birmingham.

Endnotes

[1] Sofia Karim, TURBINE BAGH, (2020), https://www.sofiakarim.co.uk/turbinebagh, accessed 8 July 2023.

[2] https://www.theherbert.org/news/292/herbert-acquires-work-by-ugandan-artist-leilah-babirye

[3] Kabir Jhala, ‘Leilah Babirye's blowtorched trash sculptures of queer Ugandan royalty come to London’, (June 2021) https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/06/04/leilah-babiryes-blowtorched-trash-sculptures-of-queer-ugandan-royalty-come-to-london, accessed 10 July 2023.

[4] Anonymous gallery label, Herbert Art Gallery & Museum.

[5] Iftikhar Dadi, ed. Hammad Nasar, Lines of Control: Partition as a Productive Space, (Green Cardamon, 2012), p. 190.

[6] Sophie Ernst, HOME: An Architecture of Memory, (2012), https://sophieernst.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/ERNST_Architecture-of-Memory-s.pdf, p. 99.

[7] Gavin Jantjes, Graphic Work, 1974–1978, (Stockholm: Kulturhuset, 1978), p. 7.

[8] David Dibosa, ‘Gavin Jantjes's Korabra Series (1986): Reworking Museum Interpretation’, Art History, vol. 44/3, 2021 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-8365.12580, accessed 6 August 2023.

[9] Allison K. Young, ‘Art for Liberation’s Sake: The Activist Art of Gavin Jantjes’, (October 2022), https://post.moma.org/art-for-liberations-sake-the-activist-art-of-gavin-jantjes/, accessed 6 August 2023.

[10] Anonymous, gallery label, Herbert Art Gallery & Museum.

[11] The Specials, https://www.thespecials.com/, accessed 15 July 2023.

[12] Last Mufaba, https://inini.co.uk/about-us/, accessed 6 August 2023.

[13] Anonymous, gallery label, Herbert Art Gallery & Museum.

[14] Barbara Walker, Shock and Awe, https://www.barbarawalker.co.uk/index.php/works/shock-and-awe/, accessed 5 August 2023.