About

The exhibition seeks to question why Museums and society celebrate the lives of some people, but not others, and to challenge established notions of British history and colonialism.
Parian is a fine, unglazed porcelain resembling marble. It is named after Paros; the Greek island renowned for its brilliant white marble, used since antiquity to create sculpture. Invented in around 1845 by a Staffordshire pottery manufacturer, parian allowed manufacturers to mass- produce sculpture quickly and cheaply. However, it is by nature an inherently unstable material, and this unpredictability provides a …