Exhibition

Crossing Time

Joslyn Walker-Peart · 1923–2008. From the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Beyond.

2–30 October 2026
Brixton Tate Library, London
Free entry

An exhibition made to educate as much as to be seen

CROSSING TIME presents the paintings of Jamaican-born artist Joslyn Walker-Peart alongside poetry, music and conversation. The works trace a journey from Africa, through the transatlantic triangular trade and plantation life, to Jamaica, migration and settlement in Britain.

Jos Peart made the collection with an educational purpose: a record that communities, schools and families could stand in front of and read together. Themes of memory, displacement, identity, resilience and the African-Caribbean diaspora run throughout.

Explore the 21 artworks

How the paintings survived

Joslyn Walker-Peart and Pete Goodall were friends. In his later years Joslyn spoke often about what should happen to his paintings, and he left the collection to Pete with a request: that the work should be used for the education of the diaspora.

Pete has kept the paintings together and worked to bring them to audiences who will recognise the history inside them. CROSSING TIME continues that purpose, pairing the works with accessible interpretation and new creative responses.

Public exhibition

2–30 October 2026

Daily, 10:00–16:00

Venue

Brixton Tate Library

Brixton Oval, London SW2 1JQ

Entry

Free

All are welcome

Private View

Tuesday 6 October 2026

18:00–20:00 · Brixton Tate Library

Registration is free.
Capacity details to be confirmed.

Live poetry responses

Lisa Lore — Chosen
Sheda — Traveller
Nefateri Asantewa — Burial at Sea
Juwon Ogungbe — Strange Fruit

Plus live music.

From the collection

21 works. One journey.

Explore the 21 artworks

Performers & contributors

The Voices Around the Work

CROSSING TIME brings together artists, performers, poets and creative contributors whose work responds to the paintings and themes of Jos Peart.

Musician, singer and composer

Juwon Ogungbe

Responding to: Strange Fruit

Juwon Ogungbe is an inspiring and well-respected musician, singer and composer from London.

Juwon’s concert and music theatre commissions include music for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Union Dance, the BBC, LIFT and the Southbank Centre amongst many others.

In 2018–19, Juwon composed and performed new works in residencies at Opera North, Grimeborn Opera Festival, Dhow Countries Music Academy, Zanzibar and Longfield Hall, London amongst other settings.

Multidisciplinary artist — poetry, spoken word, music and film

Lisa Lore

Responding to: Chosen

LiSa LoRe, aka Lisa Johnson Arnold, is a multidisciplinary artist with streams/focus in poetry, spoken word, music, songwriting, acting, voiceovers, fashion and film. She is currently based in London, and of Jamaican, American, and British heritage. She works under the brand of Quantum Noir Nubluz Aesthete, an Afrofuturistic blend of here and there.

BFA in Drama from NYU, vocal training in jazz, contemporary, musical theatre, blues, and folk.

As an actor her credits include Susan Lori-Parks 365 Days, 365 Plays with Tiata Fahodzi at Soho Theatre; and Nona Hendrix’s Brownstones at Lyric Hammersmith.

Mixed-media artist, curator, poet and lyricist

Nefateri Asantewa

Responding to: Burial at Sea

Nefateri is a multi-award-winning entrepreneur, self-taught mixed-media artist, curator, poet and lyricist whose creative practice is rooted in healing, ancestral memory and the lived experiences of African and Caribbean people.

Her journey as a visual artist began in 2016, during a deeply challenging period in her life, when she felt an inner calling to paint.

What began as a personal space for healing soon developed into a distinctive artistic practice, bringing together texture, symbolism and storytelling.

Vocalist

Robert Wiggins

Born in Jamaica in 1952.

In 1965 I came to England to live in North London with my father.

My later education and career was mainly spent in and around the Borough of Lambeth.

Host, presenter and performance poet — writes as Holda Poetry

Sheda

Responding to: Traveller

Sheda is a host and presenter nationally and internationally, and a published and performance artist/poet living in West London, who writes under the pen name Holda Poetry.

A former professional dancer and model, Sheda toured the USA and Asia before returning to England in 1991 to choreograph two stage plays at the Shaw Theatre and join the family’s new catering business in North West London, Sheda’s Restaurant.

Under the banner of Hash Tag on Tour, Sheda produced a One Woman Show — Holda Poetry (2016).

Sheda manages two monthly open-mic events, Poets and Monologues (est. 2018), and presents The Formula 1 & all sport radio talk show.

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