Hackney Windrush News Today

Two works paying tribute to the Windrush generation quickly became part of the physical and emotional geography of Hackney, writes Polly Cziok, strategic

Simon de Pury, Meriem Berrada, Nicky Wilson and others share the 10 artists on their radar who will hit the big time this fall.

a href= http://www.freelandsfoundation.co.uk target= _blank Freelands Foundation /a has today awarded seven new grants to small and medium sized,

The new permanent public artwork by British artist Thomas J Price, outside Hackney Town Hall, is a beautiful and poignant piece of work

An artwork commemorating the Windrush generation is amongst sculptures shortlisted for the prestigious Turner prize.

Heather Phillipson, Ingrid Pollard, Veronica Ryan and Sin Wai Kin in running as prize returns to Liverpool

Thomas J Price on expanding expectations of sculpture, as ‘Thoughts Unseen’, his first show with Hauser & Wirth, opens at the gallery’s Somerset outpost

A Windrush suitcase. - Credit: Hackney council Hackney community groups are being asked to apply for microgrants to help celebrate, commemorate and educate people about the valuable contributions of the Windrush generation.  Microgrants between £500 and £1000 are available to community groups and events or activities selected will be part of the boroughs Windrush Generations Festival in June 2021, or as part of the councils ongoing work to honour the community and its heritage throughout ...

Hackney’s Windrush community to inspire local sculptures A proposed sculpture presenting someone associated with windrush. Pic: Hackney council A London-based artist has invited the people of Hackney to help inspire the UK’s first permanent public artwork that will pay tribute to the Windrush generation. Thomas J Price has called for a maximum of 30 contributors, who are willing to have a 3D photograph taken of them in their day-to-day clothes. The photographs will present people associated...

The Windrush generation courtesy the Windrush Foundation The London-based sculptor Thomas Price is among four artists shortlisted to create a new monument at Waterloo Station in London honouring the Windrush generation of workers who came to the UK from the Caribbean between 1948 and 1971. All four artists shortlisted—including Basil Watson, Jeannette Ehlers and Valda Jackson—are of Caribbean descent. Ehlers, who is of Danish Trinidadian heritage, co-created the v...