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Join Deaf artist Rubbena Aurangzeb-Tariq on a BSL Tour of ‘We Grown Ups Can Also Be Afraid’– an exhibition that takes its name from the Swedish nursery rhyme that features in the show.

Drawn from the David and Indrė Roberts Collection, one of the UK’s foremost private art collections, the exhibition encompasses sculpture, works on canvas, moving image and installation. The artists represented in the exhibition respond to these themes in very different ways, but their practices are connected by a sustained engagement with globally important issues that can often feel too big and too difficult for us to think about. They collect, build, stitch, carve, burn, staple, break and put back together many different materials to shape works that speak about their concerns.

This is not an exhibition about art and activism. The artists represented may not consider their work as a form of political activism – indeed, there is no sense that we are being lectured to or told what to think. Instead, it seems that we are being invited to direct our attention to something urgently important, to look more closely at the world as it is now.

Rubbena Aurangzeb-Tariq is a London based painter and installation artist. She has exhibited internationally in New York, South Korea, Canada, Paris, Sweden and the UK. Over the past few years she has led BSL tours for galleries such as the Hayward, Tate, Wallace Collections and the Science Gallery.

Rubbena will be leading the tour in British Sign Language (BSL) capturing the curator’s insight into the exhibitions for the participants. A BSL Interpreter will also attend.

This friendly tour is free, and open to everyone. The tour will be Deaf-led and tailored for Deaf audiences.

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