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24 Jul 2023
Congratulations to our first Honorary Graduate of the summer 2023 celebrations, Veronica Ryan, who was awarded the Turner Prize in 2022 and is now an Honorary Doctorate of Arts @BathSpaUni #BathSpaProud. Best wishes to all students who are graduating this week
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20 Jul 2023
🎉Join the #Windrush75 celebrations with @UprisingClub's Windrush street party. For all ages.
📅Saturday 29 July, 12-4pm
📍Downs Park Road, E5 8NS
🎶Music, poetry, dance, food & discussions on the journey of the #HackneyWindrush generation.
More info: lovehackney.uk/windrush-even…
ALT The Uprising Windrush Street Party, funded by Hackney Council’s Windrush Microgrant Scheme.
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27 Jun 2023
Some clips from our #Windrush75 event last Thursday. It was superb. Thank you to everyone who came down and helped create such a beautiful vibe.
#hackneyblackhistory #hackneywindrush #hoxtontrust
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5 May 2023
🎉Our #HackneyWindrush Public Art Commission sculptures have been shortlisted in the best use of arts, culture or sport in place-making category in this year's #PlanningAwards!
🏆Winners are announced by @Planning_Awards on 8 June.
ℹ️ hackney.gov.uk/culture#artwo…
ALT Warm Shores by Thomas J Price.
ALT Custard Apple, Breadfruit and Soursop by Veronica Ryan OBE.
ALT Soursop sculpture.
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3 May 2023
🎉We're delighted that Warm Shores by Thomas J Price has been nominated for the 2023 @PSSAtweets Marsh Awards in the Excellence in Public Sculpture category.
👀Come see the artwork, commissioned in honour of the Windrush community, outside Hackney Town Hall.
#HackneyWindrush
🔥 EXCITED about OUR 2023 PSSA Marsh Award for Excellence in Public Sculpture NOMINATIONS! inc Denise Dutton 'Mary Anning' #LymeRegis Thomas J Price 'Warm Shores' #Hackney and Basil Watson National Windrush Monument #WaterlooStation FIND out HERE pssauk.org/awards/previous-a…
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27 Apr 2023
Hackney Council has invested £20,000 to fund a number of events and activities which celebrate and support the 75th anniversary of #Windrush.
Read about our successful Windrush microgrant applicants here:
news.hackney.gov.uk/microgra…
#Windrush75 #HackneyWindrush
ALT Members of the Windrush generation on National Windrush Day 2022.
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8 Dec 2022
👏Well done to artist Veronica Ryan OBE, winner of the 2022 #TurnerPrize for her #HackneyWindrush Art Commission sculptures.
🥇Veronica's Caribbean fruits were the first UK public permanent artwork honouring the Windrush Generation.
news.hackney.gov.uk/veronica…
ALT Turner Prize winner Veronica Ryan OBE with marble and bronze Custard Apple, Breadfruit and Soursop sculptures at the Hackney unveiling in October 2021.
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7 Dec 2022
🎉Congratulations to 2022 #TurnerPrize winner Veronica Ryan OBE.
Veronica's marble and bronze sculptures of Caribbean fruits for #HackneyWindrush are the UK's first permanent public artwork to honour the #WindrushGeneration.
ALT Veronica Ryan OBE, winner of the 2022 Turner Prize, next to her sculptures of Custard Apple, Breadfruit and Soursop in Hackney.
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7 Dec 2022
👏Congratulations Veronica Ryan OBE, winner of the 2022 #TurnerPrize!
Veronica's large marble and bronze sculptures of Caribbean fruit for the #HackneyWindrush Art Commission are the UK’s first public, permanent artwork honouring the Windrush Generation.
And the winner is… 🥁 Veronica Ryan! Congratulations to this year's #TurnerPrize winner! 🎉
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CONGRATULATIONS to Veronica Ryan, #TurnerPrize2022 Winner! Here's a detail from her glorious #HackneyWindrush fruit sculptures @hackneycouncil @Alison_Jacques bit.ly/3VVSzep
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7 Dec 2022
🏆 Veronica Ryan OBE is among the artists shortlisted for tonight's 2022 #TurnerPrize.
🎨Veronica is nominated for work including the #HackneyWindrush Art Commission.
📺The ceremony will be available to view on BBC iPlayer: bbc.co.uk/programmes/b087ppl……
🤞Good luck Veronica! 👏
ALT The large marble and bronze sculptures of Caribbean fruits in Hackney by Veronica Ryan OBE - Custard Apple, Breadfruit and Soursop - are the UK’s first public, permanent artwork to honour the Windrush Generation.
ALT Artist Veronica Ryan OBE.
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25 Nov 2022
Woohoo! We are thrilled that Veronica Ryan has WON the PSSA Marsh Awards for Public Sculpture for her fruit sculptures which we co-commissioned with @hackneycouncil for #HackneyWindrush. Here they are in all their glory! 🤩 @PSSAtweets
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26 Sep 2022
‘I want [this] sculpture to be an opportunity for people to connect emotionally with an image of someone they might not have noticed before,’ —#ThomasJPrice, born #onthisday🎉
📸 hackneywindrush on Instagram
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21 Jun 2022
Gonna be reading poems at Hackney Town hall for the unveiling of Thomas J Price's sculpture on Wednesday (5-7pm). With the mighty @RaymondAntrobus & @EddieNestorMBE It's free, so pass by & say "hi" #Hackneywindrush #WindrushDay2022
news.hackney.gov.uk/windrush…
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21 Jun 2022
Hackney National Windrush Day celebration and artwork unveiling. Very excited to see the statues being installed. Hope lots of children, parents and staff come to the Town Hall to celebrate #HackneyWindrush 22 June 5pm to 7pm
hackneywindrush.com//events/…
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9 Jun 2022
🗣️The first episode of a special edition podcast series honouring the legacy of Windrush in Hackney is now available to stream
🎧Tune in to hear Hackney-born vocalist & MOBO award winner Cleveland Watkiss MBE talk music & more
Listen: bit.ly/3MyNW4c
#HackneyWindrush
ALT A specially commissioned poster for the Hackney Windrush Stories podcast created by Graphic designer Abi Wright.
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2 Oct 2021
Artist Veronica Ryan has been creating a series of large marble and bronze sculptures, representing Caribbean fruit and vegetables @hackneygazette @hackneycouncil #HackneyWindrush
hackneygazette.co.uk/news/ha…
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Fruit and veg sculptures in Hackney honour the Windrush Generation @guardiannews #HackneyWindrush @hackneycouncil
theguardian.com/uk-news/2021…
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