Creative Research Lecture and Workshop, celebrating 60 years of Museum Studies at Leicester

Exploring and sharing creative research methodologies in practice with artist Remiiya Badru

Talk and informal workshop with drinks and nibbles

5 pm   to   6.45pm Belvoir Lounge, 2nd Floor, Charles Wilson Building, University of Leicester.

Please join us for a presentation followed by an informal workshop led by artist Remiiya Badru. Remiiya will share her work as creative research fellow at the Royal Museums Greenwich where she worked at mapping narratives around black and indigenous women at sea from the 17th century onwards. She developed an approach using rhumblines (the lines on maps) to bring complex narrative threads together exploring the life of Jamaican born, 18th century, map maker Penelope Steel.

“As an artist, research is integral to my process. However, this process involves a variety of tributaries of exploration from conversations with key people, accessing a range of archives and critical fabulation to name a few.”

In the workshop element of the evening Remiiya invites us to view her large scale mapping collage and to play with materials, considering how mapping and collage processes can be used as research tools.  

Learn more about Remiiya’s work here https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/ocean/timehris-travels-how-ship-model-sent-remiiya-badru-on-journey-discovery

This free event is part of Museum Studies at Leicester’s 60th Anniversary, and Museum Studies Post Graduate Research Week.