Shanice Drewitt-Wilson

I visited the Devotional exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery and met the curator called Eddie Otchere.

The work was displayed in a small white coloured walled room. It consisted of photographs of female British black singers and hand drawn writing on the walls.

Eighteen singers were represented in the exhibition. I found out that the female singers entertained millions during their careers. The exhibition took over two weeks to install and was created using carbon paper, ink and pencil.

I liked this exhibition because to me it was cultural, from my background ancestors.

I thought the exhibition was presented well because using black and white images made it stronger. It was different from what I expected because I couldn’t believe that the words on the wall were hand drawn.

I would recommend it to others because I learnt about my older generation artists, and I think youngsters of today could also learn this too.

My favourite image was of Janet Kay.

I found out that in 1979, Janet Kay was entered into the Guiness Book of Records as the first British born black female to have a reggae song at the top of the British charts.

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