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A healer, trader, preserver and transmitter of cultural knowledge: the role of the market woman has been central to Caribbean communities, but so often her importance has been overlooked.  

Jacqueline Bishop’s piece The Keeper of All The Secrets has been acquired by Royal Museums Greenwich and is now on display in the Queen’s House. The Jamaican-born artist has adorned a traditional British tea service with collages of Caribbean market women intertwined with local flowers and plants. The work focuses on women’s agency and resistance in the Caribbean, while exploring the legacies of the tea and sugar trades, empire and enslavement. It was developed in partnership with Culture&, as part of their programme Time, Space and Empire (2024-2025). 

Her artistic practice has also been shaped by the work of Stella Dadzie. An award-winning historian, Dadzie is the author of books including A Kick in the Belly: Women, Slavery and Resistance and Heart of the Race: Black Women’s Lives in Britain.

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