Join artist Chris Day, poet and creative producer Gabriella Gay, and Jelena of EMPIRE LINES, for a live-recorded conversation about the Wedgwood Anti-Slavery Medallion. The discussion will reflect on the complex history of the medallion, with Gabreilla and Chris sharing their creative responses. Gabriella’s poem ‘Black Man Cast in Clay’ and Chris’s glass sculptures ‘Fragmented Truths’ are both currently on display at the V&A Wedgwood Collection. The recording will finish with a Q&A session.

The talk will be recorded live and later shared as an episode of the EMPIRE LINES podcast, available on all major streaming platforms.

Jelena Sofronijevic (@empirelinespodcast) is a producer, curator, writer, and researcher, working at the intersections of cultural history, politics, and the arts. Their independent curatorial projects include Invasion Ecology (2024), SEEDLINGS: Diasporic Imaginaries (2025), and Can We Stop Killing Each Other? at the Sainsbury Centre (2025), and they produce EMPIRE LINES, a podcast which uncovers the unexpected flows of empires through art. They are also pursuing a practice-based PhD with Gray’s School of Art, curating exhibitions of Balkan and Yugoslavian/diasporic artists in British art collections.

Jelena’s full portfolio is available on their website and Instagram.

Tuesday 4th November 2025 | 6:00pm | Free