CRITIC’S CHOICE

AMARTEY Golding’s Bring me to Heal is entering its last few weeks at Tramway now – and I urge you to get along to it if you are able to – and this weekend, the artist is up from London for a series of events around the themes explored in his work.

The exhibition itself is a mix of film, photography and installation, including a garment made entirely out of hair – making reference to both Afro hair styles and Ancient British body art – that features in the eponymous film. Bring me to Heal also features Golding’s brother, the dancer and filmmaker Solomon Golding, in a transfixing, moving work which seems to mark that moment of realisation, that loss of innocence, that the world is not all it has seemed to be, as a child, but instead has a mixed heritage of injustice and trauma. In the second of the films, Solomon’s character walks through the V&A Museum in London, in wonder at the beauty of things which humans have made, then is visibly distraught at the horrors of inhumanity towards others which they display, and at the violence of British history.

This is an exhibition looking at generational trauma and communal healing, and Golding, himself of AngloScottish and Ghanaian parentage – and a Rastafarian upbringing – explores this, both in his work and in the events around it this weekend. The first of the events is a live ‘in conversation’ with Golding; the second a panel discussion with the artist alongside broadcaster Gaylene Gould, artist, director and educator Thulani Rachia; and Shumela Ahmed, Director of the Resilience Learning partnership, “to look at the under-examined area of the emotional legacy and inherited trauma of white Britain,” and how we might begin to heal. Amartey Golding: Bring me to Heal, Tramway, Albert Drive, Glasgow, 0845 330 3501 www.tramway.org Until 6 Mar, Tues - Fri, 12pm - 5pm; Sat - Sun, 12pm 6pm. Events programme: 26 Feb: Amartey Golding in conversation, and 27 Feb: Reasoning - A Live Conversation. Both Free, but booking essential - see website for details.