Traces

To our North London celebrity and sunflower you make us proud. – Ftouh

This exhibition is a celebration of all the impact these links have made, and I am so happy to hear people get to tell their own story. As a gaelic speaker who watched the culture and language be systematically erased, I want to use and celebrate the music, culture, language and knowledge we still have.

Thank you for this exhibition. We love it. Brent Mencap

Excellent effort, thank you very much. Please, keep going and make your voice heard. Together you will make a difference. Best wishes

Thank you Willesden & London for beinmy own world made up of fragments of many far away world. I believe in a Britain & London that loves how diverse & multi-everything we are. I will fight for this forever.

The life of me is like a song, sad, hopeful, week but strong, Played like a broken record among waves of carless and critical tongues, speaking of truths that stung, Make me feel that I don't belong. I don't and won't as there is air in my lung

"The Noble Sanctuary". Umrah, January 2026

I am a creative, curious, caring being. I have had to push against the boundaries society has placed around me to find space and my place. A daughter of Jamaican immigrants, who fought to belong in a country that invited them but then denied them a rightful place in its society. I long for equality and peace in this world.

Teta’s chair, حلب

All that you touch you change. All that you change changes you. Our bodies are living archives.

عش كل لحظة وكأنها آخر لحظة في حياتك، عش بالإيمان.. وبحب الله سبحانه وتعالى، عش بالأمل.. عش بالحب.. عش بالكفاح.. وقدر قيمة الحياة..‏ابرهيم الفقي Dont just inhabit historical suffering

This is what remains: her hands in motion, and the softness of a place that still lives in me.

my uncle and his friends

Working in Willesden, I do not feel alone, as I am surrounded by others who call this place home.

A language a few speak, many don't understand An exclusive club noone wants to be apart Only a few identities disclosed All living behind a wall that was built by society Constantly behind this language barrier that society has built brick by brick.