offering their skills to rebuild a country during peacetime and seeking opportunities to forge a better future for themselves and their families. when they arrived on our shores with little more than what they were able to carry with them, few could hardly have imagined then how they and those that followed them would make such a profound and permanent contribution to british life. if you ever feel like you re in a room and you re the only one in the room, that s the way i feel, at that time. but then you start to meet friends, you know, and here and there, and little bit and that and then they get them together. and then they say, well, it s time we have a little thing about my people now, because lots of people didn t believe that. they didn t believe their dream would be such a horrible time. but we survived. big john has been a pioneer and the work that he has done to challenge some of these stereotype images that people have of us. these are the things that will live o
in the british armed forces during the second world war, just as their fathers and grandfathers had in the first world war. once in britain, they worked hard, offering their skills to rebuild a country during peacetime and seeking opportunities to forge a better future for themselves and their families. when they arrived on our shores with little more than what they were able to carry with them, few could hardly have imagined then how they and those that followed them would make such a profound and permanent contribution to british life. if you ever feel like you re in a room and you re the only one in the room, that s the way i feel, at that time. but then you start to meet friends, you know, and here and there, and little bit and that and then they get them together. and then they say, well, it s time we have a little thing about my people now, because lots of people didn t believe that. they didn t believe their dream would be such a horrible time. but we survived. big j
in the first world war. once in britain, they worked hard, offering their skills to rebuild a country during peacetime and seeking opportunities to forge a better future for themselves and their families. when they arrived on our shores with little more than what they were able to carry with them, few could hardly have imagined then how they and those that followed them would make such a profound and permanent contribution to british life. if you ever feel like you re in a room and you re the only one in the room, that s the way i feel, at that time. but then you start to meet friends, you know, and here and there, and little bit and that and then they get them together. and then they say, well, it s time we have a little thing about my people now, because lots of people didn t believe that. they didn t believe their dream would be such a horrible time. but we survived. big john has been a pioneer and the work that he has done to challenge some of these stereotype images th
exhibition at the prestigious tate britain museum of the work of the british caribbean artist and film maker sir isaacjulien. it is a sweeping showcase of his four decade career. his subject matter explores some of the most divisive issues of our age migration, racism and sexuality. as a prominent gay, black man, how far does isaacjulien use his art to advance such causes? sir isaacjulien, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, zeinab. how would you describe your artistic work? because it embodies a whole range of visual arts photographs, drawings, art installations, experimental videos and documentaries. it sounds pretty eclectic. well, i guess you could say i m someone who started making films, and i was very drawn to film making at an early age but then i went to art school. and going to art school, you re exposed to so many different sort of forms. i became so excited, really, as an art student, that i wanted to encapsulate all those forms. so, in a way, film, moving image
exhibition at the prestigious tate britain museum of the work of the british caribbean artist and film maker sir isaacjulien. it is a sweeping showcase of his four decade career. his subject matter explores some of the most divisive issues of our age migration, racism and sexuality. as a prominent gay, black man, how far does isaacjulien use his art to advance such causes? sir isaacjulien, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, zeinab. how would you describe your artistic work? because it embodies a whole range of visual arts photographs, drawings, art installations, experimental videos and documentaries. it sounds pretty eclectic. well, i guess you could say i m someone who started making films, and i was very drawn to film making at an early age but then i went to art school. and going to art school, you re exposed to so many different sort of forms. i became so excited, really, as an art student, that i wanted to encapsulate all those forms. so, in a way, film, moving image