Asylum artwork

LOUGHBOROUGH University and a renowned London gallery used art to tackle interpretations of asylum and immigration.

Artistic answers to the refugee crisis and post-EU referendum questions of nationalism featured at Tate Modern last week when Loughborough University held its ‘ Who are we?’ event.

The project aimed to offer alterative perspectives to common preconceptions about families who have come to Britain after fleeing war in their home countries and those stranded in camps across Europe.

Loughborough’s contribution was led by professor of communication and media studies, Ele Belfiore. She said: “We wanted to bring the insights from scholarship produced at Loughborough into conversations with the artists, so that they could feed into their creative process.

“We have made our expertise available to artists with a view of developing long term collaborations, including, we hope, bringing some of the work presented at Tate Modern to Loughborough.”