Council of Voices
Vanley BurkeVanley Burke’s personal and ancestral histories, across three countries and continents – Gambia, where he has, over a number of years, worked with the communities living near James Island (re-named Kunta Kinteh) in the Gambia river; Jamaica, his place of birth in the Blue Mountains; and Birmingham, his current home.
Window one: (above): ‘The Bilbao Trees of Kunta Kinteh’
Window two: ‘Stolen People’ Vanley documented the ledgers of stolen people, their names in a slave ledgers at Kunta Kintah
Window Gallery: A Council of Voices (2022 version) The artwork is titled ‘Council of Voices’, which is an ongoing, currently nine years in the making, uses scale, time and text to create a montage of generations in an interconnected world, a community sharing stories of pride, protest and of courage, loss and persecution. Here we made the works in a low light rflective transparency, by day the widows appeared black, a discourse around the black square for the BLM movement, by night they revealed the montage.
Est.1690, Vanley Burke, Rhea Dillon - Newspaper advertising wrap.
Est.1690 - Worcester Berrows JournalEst 1690 Vanley Burke - Edition of 50 signed and numbered. available here