Jeannette Ehlers

Jeannette Ehlers (born 1973) is a Danish-Trinidadian artist based in Copenhagen.

Her work often addresses themes and questions around memory, race and colonialism.

[1] She is well-known for co-creating the public art project, a monumental public sculpture, I Am Queen Mary with La Vaugh Belle in 2018.

It is the first public statue of a Black woman in Denmark and depicts Mary Thomas, leader of the 1878 St. Croix labor riot.

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