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10 July – 30 August 2025
|Gallery 1957, London
Arthur Timothy: Othello’s Countrymen (The Krio Enigma)
Free Admission. In Othello’s Countrymen (The Krio Enigma), Ghanaian-born British-Sierra Leonean artist Arthur Timothy explores race, identity and belonging through the lens of Sierra Leone’s Krio people and their parallels with Shakespeare’s Othello.
Date & Location
10 July – 30 August 2025
Gallery 1957, London, 1 Hyde Park Gate, South Kensington, London SW7 5EW, UK
About the event
Featuring large-scale oil paintings drawn from personal memory, family photographs and historical research, Timothy reflects on the legacy of colonialism and the complexities of assimilation. His work traces the journey of the Krios, descendants of freed enslaved Africans once celebrated as “Black Englishmen”, and their disillusionment as British attitudes shifted. Drawing on Frantz Fanon’s reading of Othello, Timothy weaves together history and personal reflection to explore the fragile space between identity, acceptance and exclusion.