Free talk with Tracey Thorne and personal tour of the exhibition at the Library of Birmingham. The session will provide an opportunity to meet the artist, learn more about how the artist came to make the work, and an exploration of personal connections to the work.Meet the ArtistIntended for Jamaica

is an artist-led project responding to archives in the Boulton and Watt Collection at the Library of Birmingham.Intended for Jamaica

The new work focuses on an unseen part of the archive in the collection that sheds light on the sale of Boulton and Watt Co. steam engines from Soho Foundry near Birmingham to sugar plantations in Jamaica during the nineteenth century. This story represents a missing chapter in the narrative of pioneering industrial heroes Boulton, Watt, and Murdoch, one that is interwoven with the threads of transatlantic slavery, indentured (bonded) labour, and the enduring legacies of colonialism.

The project seeks…