Interview Hattie Wade

Hattie Wade interviewed by Benjamin Earl during the Graduation Show 2021 at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK).

Thy Cities Shall With Commerce Shine – Part I

Graduation project 2020-2021 by Hattie Wade
HD video and digital platform

Heritage is a political resource that is used to create and define a national identity. From a young age, Britons are educated in nationalist pride through sites of heritage – but as these narratives are almost exclusively based on the notion of a heroic past, structural forgetfulness is created through selective memory.

Thy Cities Shall With Commerce Shine is an upcoming four-part video series that addresses legislative injustice using one insurance marketplace – Lloyd’s of London – as a springboard. Part I calls attention to their custom Grade I listed building, and questions why is it that this building is listed as Britain’s youngest monument?