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Podcast: EMPIRE LINES
Episode: Barbershop, Hurvin Anderson (2006-2023) (EMPIRE LINES x Hepworth Wakefield)
Description: Curator Isabella Maidment steps into Hurvin Anderson’s studio and barbershop, a point of cultural connection between Birmingham and the Caribbean, reconstructed at the Hepworth Wakefield.Contemporary artist Hurvin Anderson first painted a barbershop in Birmingham in 2006. For more than 15 years, he has returned to and reworked this space, an important social setting, especially for men, in Black British communities. As a second-generation migrant, whose parents migrated from Jamaica, Anderson practiced in the post-Windrush diaspora in 1980s Britain, creating works which connect cultures in Britain and theCaribbean - and Life Between Islands.As Salon Paintings, the first co...