{"id":316130,"date":"2025-11-30T09:18:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T09:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/316130\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T09:18:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T09:18:04","slug":"london-museum-docklands-opens-art-show-celebrating-romani-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/316130\/","title":{"rendered":"London Museum Docklands opens art show celebrating Romani culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Co-curator and artist Corrina Eastwood described working on the project as a &#8220;really important personal and professional journey&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;The desire to adequately honour self, family, community and culture has been a moving and at times overwhelming experience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Yet we have been able to address this by weaving together shared histories, gathered through traditional archiving and an art-based approach.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Eastwood&#8217;s piece, titled Sugar Coated, reflects on her heritage and memories of her late father, incorporating 3D-printed casts of his hands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Another piece, Tap Your Heels Together Three Times, by Delaine Le Bas, explores belonging, gender and modernity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Le Bas draws on her family history and Romani traditions such as rag-and-bone dealing &#8211; where dealers collected unwanted household items like rags, bones and scrap metal to sell for recycling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Co-curator and artist Corrina Eastwood described working on the project as a &#8220;really important personal and professional journey&#8221;.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-316130","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}