Friday 6 June 2025
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
AND then there were Dragons?
If India was the Jewel in the Imperial Crown, could we argue that Wales was England’s first colony? What do the Tiger of India and the Welsh Dragon share? This talk will focus on “Tigers & Dragons: India and Wales in Britain”but unlike the more research-based talks she has given so far, this one by Zehra will come from a curatorial perspective; giving insights into the collaborative curation of the show with Glynn Vivian’s Katy Freer.
Free, suggested donation £3.
Booking essential. Limited spaces available
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Book now – Friends of the Glynn Vivian talk with Dr Zehra Jumabhoy
Dr Zehra Jumabhoy is a Lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Bristol, UK.
She has been awarded the inaugural 2025 Berger Trust Future Leaders Fellowship in the History of British Art (launched by Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge, and The Huntington, California). She is an art historian, curator and writer specialising in modern and contemporary South Asian art and its diasporas. She is interested in analysing the socio-political contexts of South Asian art history, including its relationship to British Imperial pasts and presents. She was the Steven and Elena Heinz Scholar at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, where she completed her doctorate on Indian art and nationalism supervised by Prof. Julian Stallabrass in 2017, and subsequently lectured on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. She has been a visiting lecturer at various academic institutions in the UK, India, Pakistan and Singapore.
In 2018, she co-curated the landmark exhibition, The Progressive Revolution: A Modern Art for a New India, at New York’s Asia Society Museum. She was Guest Curator for the US show, Raqib Shaw: Ballads of East and West, which travelled to four major institutions between 2023-2025, including the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and The Huntington in Los Angeles.
She has been Curatorial Research Fellow at Swansea’s Glynn Vivian museum, a position funded by the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art, to facilitate programming related to the museum’s decolonizing agenda. The exhibition Tigers & Dragons: India and Wales in Britain at the Glynn Vivian, is part of this project.
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