Learn about Liverpool’s relationship to migration with a free guided tour around some of the key artworks in Tate’s collection. Each tour is different and packed with fascinating insights, information and stories about artwork in our Journeys Through the Tate Collection display.
The display considers how the movement of people and ideas is central to Liverpool’s history and identity, and the city’s relationship to the wider world. Through this, the display looks at the intertwined stories of the transatlantic slave trade, migration and displacement, and how these continue to impact society.
The display also features artworks such as Hew Locke’s Armada 2019, which is made up of an array of cargo ships, fishing boats, caravels and galleons from different historical periods and places; Donald Rodney’s Visceral Canker 1990 which consists of wall plaques displaying two coats of arms, one symbolising Queen Elizabeth I, the other John Hawkins, the first British slave trader; and Sonia Boyce, whose From Tarzan to Rambo: English Born 'Native' Considers her Relationship to the Constructed/Self Image and her Roots in Reconstruction 1987 raises questions about the effect of the dispersion of the Afro-Caribbean diaspora across the world through slavery and colonisation on the identity and representation of Black people.
Donald Rodney
Visceral Canker (detail) 1990
Perspex, wood, silicon tubing, gold leaf, plastic bags and electrical pump
© The estate of Donald Rodney