Gayle Chong Kwan

Blueprint (2012)

Details Series of five c-type photographic prints. Each 30 x 40”
Installation Group Exhibition, SINOPTICON, Plymouth Museum and Gallery, Plymouth
Dates 27 April – 7 July 2012
Photo Credit Gayle Chong Kwan
Also exhibited at 'Couriers of Taste', Danson House, 1 April - 31 October 2013

'Francis Galton, letter to the Editor of The Times, June 5 1873. (excerpt)'
AFRICA FOR THE CHINESE

Sir, - In a few days Sir Bartle Frere will return to England, and public attention will be directed to the East Coast of Africa. I am desirous of availing myself of the opportunity to ventilate some speculations of my own, which you may, perhaps, consider of sufficient interest to deserve publication in the Times. My proposal is to make the encouragement of the Chinese settlements at one or more suitable places on the East Coast of Africa a par of our national policy...

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