In Conversation – Tara Munroe on the Lost Leicester Casta paintings

Casta Paintings

https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/lcahm/departments/historyofart/research/projects/map/issue5/lost-leicester-casta-paintings.aspx

In 2009, Tara Munroe – Curator and Creative Director of Opal 22 Arts and Edutainment – found five remarkable paintings in the store rooms at Leicester Museum and Art Gallery. Since then she has been researching and raising awareness about the complex stories of racial classification these images tell.