Image: Primary, Nottingham
‘Natural History’ runs from 3 October to 28 November 2026 at Primary, 33 Seely Road, Nottingham. The exhibition is the culmination of an extended period of visual and auditory research by Stockholm-based artist Santiago Mostyn into the Grenada Revolution of 1979–1983.
Photographic archives, personal correspondence, audio recordings, textiles and 16mm film are presented and remixed in the galleries.
The exhibition frames this approach as an open-ended retelling of one of the most consequential yet overlooked episodes of the Black Power era in the Caribbean. On 13 March 1979, the New Jewel Movement carried out a popular coup on the island of Grenada.
Under Prime Minister Maurice Bishop, the People’s Revolutionary Government set about transforming the small, majority-Black nation of 100,000 people into a radically egalitarian social democracy.
‘Natural History’ takes place across two gallery spaces at Primary, with level access to Gallery 1 and the reading room, while Gallery 2 has stepped access.
