I Am a Man and a Brother (2021-Now), with Chris Day and Gabriella Gay (EMPIRE LINES Live at V&A Wedgwood)

In this special episode, glass artist Chris Day and poet and creative producer Gabriella Gay join EMPIRE LINES live, to reflect on the complex histories of the Wedgwood Anti-Slavery Medallion, and the relationships between colonialism, abolitionism, and ceramics in the Midlands, through the collaborative research project, I Am a Man and a Brother (2021-Now).

This episode was recorded live at the V&A Wedgwood Collection in Stoke-on-Trent in November 2025. Find all the information about the research project online, and in the first Instagram post: instagram.com/p/DPqjVMWjYwq/

Chris Day: Fragmented Truths was at the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery and the V&A Wedgwood Collection in Stoke-on-Trent through 2025.

Gabriella Gay’s poem, Black Man Cast in Clay (2022), is at the V&A Wedgwood Collection in Stoke-on-Trent, and available online.

Magdalene Odundo: The Falcon Cannot Hear the Falconer is on display at the V&A Wedgwood Collection in Stoke-on-Trent until March 2026.

Join Chris Day at Craft After Dark during Collect 2026 in London on 27 February 2026.

For more about Josiah Wedgwood and Jacqueline Bishop, hear curators Jake Subryan Richards and Vicky Avery on Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance (2023) at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge: pod.link/1533637675/episode/a5271ae2bc8c85116db581918412eda2

On flows of migration in Trinidad and the Caribbean, hear about Richard Fung’s film Dal Puri Diaspora (2012) at the Museum of London Docklands: pod.link/1533637675/episode/OGZkOTY3MDAtYzExOC00MzJmLWIyYWItNDQyMzJmOTY2NzI3

On the relationship between rope and other mediums, hear sculptor LR Vandy on Twist (2024) at Chatham Ropery and October Gallery in London: pod.link/1533637675/episode/MjAyOTlhYjUtYzBlMS00MDYwLWEwY2EtMzg2MTc4ZGE4Y2Ri

And on plumbing and artistic practices, hear Sovay Berriman in the live episode from Dhaqan Collective’s House of Weaving Songs at the Eden Project in Cornwall in 2024 - and Flamm 2026 in Bodmin, coming soon.

PRODUCER: Jelena Sofronijevic.

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