The Library hosts temporary exhibits or interventions which are integrated within the general Library space. You are welcome to discuss possibilities by e-mailing library.exhibitions Library Space Before making a proposal please feel free to pop up and visit the space. Exhibitions can run for up to two months. There are poster frames and glass cabinets available to display material. The exhibition space uses a wall hanging system and there is spot lighting installed. To honour Emecheta the library supports exhibitions that do vital liberation work or respond to expanded literary practise. Bravery, outspokenness and determination shoot through her novels, plays, autobiography, children’s literature and critical writing. She is held up as a writer of both Nigerian and Black British identity and continues to inspire contemporary postcolonial writers. Anti-racist activists celebrate her great pride in her culture and blackness. Queer readers pick up on her community building. Emecheta’s writing defies easy categorization and is relevant to many communities: Womanists read her fierce motherhood and solidarity Feminists, her bold independence.
The space is named after “Buchi” Emecheta OBE (21 July 1944–25 January 2017), a powerful and defiant Nigerian British writer. The Buchi Emecheta Space is on the second floor of the library and is dedicated to projects that relate to the 'Liberate Our Degree' campaign or that respond to the library or its collections. Exhibitions can run for up to a term.īefore making a proposal please book an appointment to visit the gallery and discuss possibilities by e-mailing Emecheta Space There are also two lockable cabinets outside the gallery which can be used for the exhibition or to display related material from the Goldsmiths Textile Collection. Two display tables and 3 plinths are available for use. The exhibition space uses a wall hanging system as it is not possible to drill or pierce the walls. In her memory, the gallery continues to support projects wish to push the boundaries of textiles. Exhibitions may relate to many disciplines including visual arts, visual cultures, anthropology, education, history and design. The Gallery is named after Constance Howard, who established the Embroidery Department at Goldsmiths in the 1950s and was an influential figure in promoting the understanding of embroidery as an art form.
The Constance Howard Gallery is dedicated to exhibitions relating to Textiles and is housed in the basement of the Deptford Town Hall.
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