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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 borough's Windrush Generations Festival in June 2021, or as part of the council's ongoing work to honour the community and its heritage throughout the year. The funds are available to local groups and not-for-profit organisations, to be used f...

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 with Hackney’s Windrush community, such as members of the Windrush generation, who emigrated to B...

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 vast sculpture I Am Queen Mary (2018) with La Vaughn Belle which is located on the waterfront in Co...