Date: Thursday 01 May 2025
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Venue: University of Glasgow campus
Category: Hunterian

This newly-commissioned live performance work by artist Jade de Montserrat is part of our exhibition programme for 'Digging in Another Time: Derek Jarman's Modern Nature', currently on display at the Hunterian Art Gallery. The performance will draw on the artist's ongoing research into the short film 'Springtime in an English Village' (1944). Made by the Colonial Film Unit to be shown in African and Caribbean countries within the British Empire, it depicts typical scenes of English rural life. It also shows the crowning of a young black girl as 'Queen of the May'. de Montserrat will approach this complex historical document in relation to Derek Jarman's revisioning of the English landscape. This event is supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland. Timing and location to be confirmed. Jade de Montserrat is an artist concerned with challenging structures of care in institutions and with the intersection of gender, race, class, and colonialism, often in the context of life in rural communities. Dr. de Montserrat was the recipient of the Stuart Hall Foundation Scholarship supporting her PhD and the development of her work from her Black Diasporic perspective in the North of England. She works through performance, drawing, painting, film, installation, sculpture, print and text. de Montserrat is a Tutor at Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, and an Associate Lecturer at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London.