
Alvaro Barrington’s homage to the women who shaped him
Be transported to the evocative, vibrant world of artist Alvaro Barrington in a major new installation at Tate Britain.
Barrington’s personal exploration of identity and belonging is a journey in three parts honouring his grandmother, sister and mother.
He draws from personal memories across time and place, from his grandmother’s Caribbean home where a thunderstorm hammers on the corrugated tin roof, to the exhilarating energy of Carnival. Tate Britain’s Duveen Galleries are transformed into a space alive with sound, colour and texture.
This is Barrington’s poignant celebration of the people and places that make us feel we belong.
‘GRACE is the constant reimagining of Black culture and aspirational attitude under foreign conditions. GRACE here explores how my grandmother, my mother, and my sister in the British Caribbean community showed up gracefully.’
Curated by Dominique Heyse-Moore, Senior Curator Contemporary British Art, Hannah Marsh, Assistant Curator, Contemporary British Art, Sade Sarumi, Curatorial Assistant and Chloe Hodge, Project Curator and Manager, Commission
Alvaro Barrington is a multidisciplinary artist who considers how identities and cultures are made and transformed by migration, music, family and community. His expressive works blend collective and personal experience and his idiosyncratic approach to gallery representation allows the varied aspects of his work to be shown.




Tate Britain is a landmark museum located on Millbank, London, renowned for its collection of British art from the 1500s to the present day. Housed in an imposing neoclassical building on the banks of the Thames, the museum offers a comprehensive view of the evolution of British art, from the Tudor period to contemporary practice. Alongside its permanent collection—which includes major works by artists such as J.M.W. Turner, William Blake, and Barbara Hepworth—Tate Britain also stages significant exhibitions of both contemporary and historic art.

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