The Firsts – Sarah Parker Remond

UCL's Sarah Parker Remond Centre is thrilled to reveal our commissioned portrait from multidisciplinary visual artist-researcher Sasha Huber, commemorating the remarkable life of Sarah Parker Remond (1826–1894)

Sasha Huber

The Firsts – Sarah Parker Remond (2021)

For the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism & Racialisation

UCL's Sarah Parker Remond Centre is thrilled to reveal a commissioned portrait from multidisciplinary visual artist-researcher Sasha Huber, commemorating the remarkable life of Sarah Parker Remond (1826, USA – 1894, Italy).

This portrait is part of Sasha Huber’s ongoing The Firsts portrait series which she began in 2017. This is a study of historical and systematic racism and its debilitating effects on members of the African Diaspora, with a focus on women as being further underrepresented throughout history. The suppression of this community has often hindered equitable societal and economic developments, and is directly linked to White supremacist thought and action. The Firsts suggests that this hindrance is the reason that even today someone can still be ‘the first Black person’ to achieve specific goals across many fields of practice and in different countries.

Find out more about this portrait of Sarah Parker Remond and Sasha Huber's ongoing The Firsts series here: The Firsts – Sarah Parker Remond

Sasha Huber
The Firsts – Sarah Parker Remond
Metal staples on painted acoustic board, 100 cm x 100 cm
2021
SashaHuber.com

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