Congratulations to Tamara (Form V), the winner of the BSA Supporting Excellence Award for Best Artwork Project, which was announced at the BSA Annual Conference for Heads last week.
Her winning entry explores the deep connections between the transatlantic slave trade and cultural resilience, drawing inspiration from personal history. Tamara highlights how enslaved people preserved their identities and resisted oppression using their hair as a secret tool for communication; braiding escape routes and safe houses into their hair, transforming it into a powerful language of survival.
Tamara’s artwork has also been selected to be exhibited in London for the Society of Women Artist’s summer show.
