"Two concurrent exhibitions at Tate Britain, Turner & Constable: Rivals and Originals and Hurvin Anderson, offer a revealing framework for reconsidering British landscape. Turner & Constable celebrates two canonical painters whose reputations underpin modern British art history, while Hurvin Anderson surveys a contemporary artist whose practice moves between Britain and Jamaica, personal memory and collective history, as well as the conventions of landscape painting and their very dissolution. Viewed together, however, the exhibitions expose competing models of Britishness. Turner & Constable reinforces familiar narratives of artistic genius, national heritage and cultural continuity, whereas Anderson proposes a more expansive understanding of place shaped by migration, diaspora and postcolonial experience."

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Image: Hurvin Anderson, Passenger Opportunity, 2024–25, acrylic paint on plywood, installation view, photo by and courtesy of Tate photography (Larina Annora Fernandes).