Faces of Fame: G F Watts X Simon Frederick British Portraits Then and Now

Watts Gallery – Artists’ Village is exhibiting a selection of photographs from Simon Frederick’s portrait series Black is the New Black alongside paintings from G F Watts’s Hall of Fame.

The display will re-examine the representation of celebrity, race, gender, class, power, and empire, allowing a critical re-evaluation of Watts and explore what a Hall of Fame might look like today.