Invisibility, Fugitivity and Hypervisibility: Exploring Black Atlantic Lives in the North with Jade Montserrat

Abstract

Stuart Hall’s description of the contingency of globalization on the local and the specific is key to understanding the way African diasporan artists such as Jade Montserrat make art in relation to their very local Britishness. This is too often lost in discussions of Metropolitan artists with their transnational valences. That is why Montserrat was such a good choice for the Future Collect scholarship based in Manchester for her insistence on locality in her artwork hitherto makes her able to perfectly realise a dynamic and situated mode for interacting with the collections at the gallery.