Fifteen panellists drawn from across the culture, heritage, media and voluntary sectors have been appointed to the London mayor’s Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm, which aims to create greater diversity in statues, street names, building names and memorials.
… London mayor’s Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm…
The Museum Association writes:
Fifteen panellists drawn from across the culture, heritage, media and voluntary sectors have been appointed to the London mayor’s Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm, which aims to create greater diversity in statues, street names, building names and memorials.
The panel includes Toyin Agbetu, a community educator and social activist who led a boycott of the Museum of the Home last year following its decision not to remove a statue of slave trade beneficiary Robert Geffrye. He is the founder of Ligali, a pan-African activist collective that challenges the misrepresentation of African people, culture and history in the British media.
Culture and heritage professionals joining the commission include Chisenhale Gallery director Zoé Whitley, former National Portrait Gallery director Sandy Nairne, and art critic and curator Aindrea Emelife.
Members of the commission
- David Bryan, chair of Battersea Arts Centre, Brixton House and Voluntary Arts
- Binki Taylor, Brixton business owner and partner in the Brixton Project
- Jack Guinness, founder of The Queer Bible
- Lynette Nabbosa, founder of Elimu
- Keith Magee, senior fellow in culture and justice at UCL and chair and professor of social justice at Newcastle University
- Robert Bevan, architecture critic for the Evening Standard
- Riz Ahmed, actor, writer, creator, producer, musician, director and activist
- Gillian Jackson, director of engagement at the House of St Barnabas and a trustee of Culture24
- Aindrea Emelife, art critic and independent curator
- Toyin Agbetu, social rights activist and founder of Ligali
- Pedro Gil, director and founder of Studio Gil
- Zoé Whitley, director at Chisenhale Gallery
- Jasvir Singh, chair of City Sikhs
- Eleanor Pinfield, director of Art on the Underground and member of the Fourth Plinth Commissioning Group
- Sandy Nairne, historian and curator.
