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Artist defends Churchill video at London gallery after peer condemns ‘lie’

Helen Cammock says her comments blaming wartime leader for Bengal Famine were intended to create ‘dailogue’

The Guardian - UK · Jun 16

Artist caught up in row over Foreign Office queen portrait speaks out

Larry Achiampong, whose ‘pan-African colours’ replaced picture of former monarch, calls angle of some media coverage deeply problematic

The Guardian - UK · Dec 2, 2025

Nine working-class creatives on class in the arts – and how they made it

As artists call for better access to the arts, Sally Wainwright, Steven Knight, Larry Achiampong and others speak out

The Guardian - UK · Feb 21, 2025

Larry Achiampong: Wayfinder review – a big-hearted meander through the immigrant experience

Poignant and inclusive, the British-Ghanaian artist Larry Achiampong’s first major solo show roams through class, race and the English landscape, always circling back to his own family

The Guardian - UK · May 28, 2023

Wayfinder review – Larry Achiampong’s poetic lockdown odyssey

A young wanderer encounters social injustice in the artist’s melancholy, sometimes magical feature set in a near-future England

The Guardian - UK · Jul 3, 2022

Wayfinder review – pandemic dream quest through Britain’s mythic landscape

Larry Achiampong’s titular character journeys across an empty UK, sifting through fragments of empire and Black experience in search of a country and community

The Guardian - UK · Jun 27, 2022

Artist interview: Larry Achiampong on his new permanent work at Westminster Underground Station

The British-Ghanaian artist has made a powerful new work by adapting the TFL roundel

Evening Standard · Apr 12, 2022

‘My film language? Sega and Nintendo’ – Larry Achiampong brings a gamer’s pizzazz to the gallery

From Robertson’s racist jam jars to murderous old ballads, the British-Ghanaian artist tackles notions of empire and belonging – with a gamer’s eye. He talks about his epic new film, a voyage through post-Brexit Britain

The Guardian - UK · Mar 14, 2022