Billy Gérard Frank: Colonial Imaginary

Ground Floor Gallery

Colonial Imaginary is a limited-edition print series that excavates the spectral traces of colonialism across shared histories between Scotland, Grenada, and England. Drawing from contested archival fragments, this work reimagines the colonial record-not as static history, but as a living terrain of erasure, resistance, and remembrance. The 'contested' nature of these fragments lies in their political charge (their origins in systems of control and domination) and in the new meanings they take on when placed in dialogue with contemporary diasporic memory, embodiment, and lived experience. Frank's work mines these fragments to question historical narratives, generate counter-histories, and open up spaces for relational meaning and repair. 

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