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'My name is not Refugee' is an Arts Council Collection National Partners Programme exhibition featuring artworks chosen by a group of refugees and asylum seekers living in Colchester.

Discover different perspectives on life in Britain, featuring artists Jananne Al-Ani, Peter Doig, Mona Hatoum, David Shrigley, Rachel Whiteread and more. ‘My name is not Refugee’ invites you to explore ideas and stories that are meaningful to those who selected them.

See landscape paintings, video, sculpture, ceramics and photography that inspire a different way of thinking, alongside scents that are familiar in the regions from which the group have travelled. Explore what it means to find new connections in a different place, and ponder questions about our purpose, choices and morality as human beings.

‘My name is not Refugee’ is the fourth exhibition by Firstsite as part of the Arts Council Collection National Partners Programme, which will continue into 2022.

Community curators: Elizabeth Curry, Münevver Gülsen Ülker, Samia, Diego Robirosa and Mr and Mrs Al-Chahin, working together with many more clients of and volunteers from Refugee Action Colchester.

See the exhibition 'My name is not Refugee' at Firstsite, Colchester, Essex open every day 10am - 5pm, Thu 3 Dec 2020 – Sun 6 Jun 2021.

Find out more:
firstsite.uk/my-name-is-not-refugee-exhibition

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