National Portrait Gallery | Artists in Residence at Watts Gallery - Artists' Village - Habib Hajallie: A British Hall of Fame @nationalportraitgallery | Uploaded September 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
This film explores how artist residencies can be of most benefit to both artists and galleries. Artist Habib Hajallie’s work explores themes of identity, representation and Britishness. During his residency at the Watts Gallery, he responded to portraits on display to create his most ambitious work to date, A British Hall of Fame. This included exploring the Faces of Fame exhibition which combined works from the Watts Gallery with photographic portraits from Simon Frederick’s Black is the New Black series, loaned from the National Portrait Gallery. Film by Creative Colony.