Hackney Windrush Art Commissions
Veronica Ryan, Thomas J Price, 201; 2022
With Art Fund support and in collaboration with the arts agency Create London, Hackney Council commissioned these public sculptures to celebrate and honour the area’s Windrush generation.
Together the two works constitute the Hackney Windrush Art Commissions.
Veronica Ryan, who holds an MA from the Slade School of Fine Art, is a Montserrat-born British sculptor who moved to London as a child. Her Hackney Windrush commission Custard Apple (Annonaceae), Breadfruit (Moraceae), and Soursop (Annonaceae) comprises three sculptures representing Caribbean fruit and vegetables. The custard apple is sculpted in Cararra marble, while the soursop and breadfruit are cast in bronze with a green patina. In 2022, Ryan won the prestigious Turner Prize, having been nominated in part for this work.
For his commission, Thomas J Price, who was born in London and holds an MA from the Royal College of Art, has created two large-scale bronze figures based on the likenesses of 30 local people with connections to Windrush. Titled Warm Shores, the figures were unveiled outside Hackney Town Hall on 22 June, National Windrush Day, in 2022.
More information
Title of artwork, date
Hackney Windrush Art Commissions, 201; 2022
Date supported
2022
Medium and material
Cararra marble; bronze
Dimensions
100 x 100 x 100cm; 275cm each (approx)
Grant
155440
Total cost
264256
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