SUCCESSFUL ENTRANTS OF WINDRUSH WAVES YOUTH ARTS INITIATIVE 2020

It is with great pleasure that we announce the list of young artists who have been selected to receive professional mentoring and/or take part in our Black Futures Month programme.

First Place

Maya Campbell, aged 20, for her artwork ‘Adding a Face’

Maryam Ahmed, aged 15, for her poem ‘Betrayal’

Second Place

Fiona Quadri, aged 19, for her artwork ‘The Talk’

Maryam Chaudhri, aged 21, for her poem ‘They Need Us’

Third Place

Leah Bevan, aged 20, for her artwork ‘Mother County’

Samuel Adeosun, aged 18, for his artwork ‘There is Never a Time and a Place for Oppression’

David Quinn, aged 16, for his poem ‘Gust of Wind’

Katie Alice Pritchard, aged 18, for her poem ‘A Daffodil’

Specially commended 

Olivia Dayer, aged 14, for her artwork ‘Women of the Windrush’ 

Congratulations to these nine talented young people, and to everyone who took part.