They Came Before Us

In 2019, I joined a collective of women dedicated to uncovering the UK’s history of Black, Asian and Ethnic Minority Women as part of the Collage Arts Heritage Lottery project. The series focuses on the story of Catalina De Cardones, Lady-in-waiting to Queen Katherine of Aragon. These images play with the traditional positions of power that would’ve existed between a Queen and her Lady-in-waiting. This is not to say that Catalina is master over Katherine, more a display of Catalina’s care towards Katherine. Catalina would have cared for Katherine. She would have been her interpreter, helped her in a foreign land far from home; away from everything the two would have known. Funded by National Lottery Heritage Fund.