Dark History (Hallway)

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by ruth wallace

Compressed charcoal on paper

h: 119 w: 70 d: 1 (cms).

One of a series of drawings of a house in Bristol which was built in 1718 by a sea merchant who made his living from the Transatlantic Slave Trade. As a comfortable family home built on the profits of slavery and torment, the house presents a compelling duality; its walls, which have borne witness to three hundred years of domestic narrative, feel as if they contain presences and traces, not just of past inhabitants, but of those upon whose suffering the house was built.

£1800

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