Fellows' updates March 2024 Fellow's update: Hannah Stanislaus
As part of her learning in the USA, Hannah Stanislaus (CF 2023) has performed at several poetry slam and open mic competitions and won the Phoenix Poetry Slam.
By Hannah Stanislaus, 2024
Arts and culture
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This theme covers all aspects of the arts, crafts and creative industries, including their social, cultural and economic aspects. It is one of the eight universal themes which form our grantmaking framework and allow us to address every aspect of society. Fellows’ stories
Report Increasing Children and Young People’s Access to Hobbies and Leisure Activities
By Amy Woodhouse, 2023
Blogs & conversations Art and the healing environment
'Between birth and death, many of life’s most critical moments occur in hospital and they deserve to take place in surroundings that match their significance.' Richard Cork, The Healing Presence of Art (2012)
By Vivienne Reiss, 2024
Fellows' updates January 2024 Fellow's update: Brian Clarke
Artist Brian Clarke (CF 1974) was awarded a knighthood at The King’s New Year Honours list for services to Art. Known for his large-scale stained glass and mosaic projects, symbolist paintings, set designs and collaborations, Brian has worked on several notable projects across his career.
By Brian Clarke, 2024
Blogs & conversations Human rights: the last 75 years and the next
December 10th marks International Human Rights Day, the date on which the Universal Declaration was adopted by the United Nations. This year’s Human Rights Day is especially momentous, as it marks the 75th anniversary of the Declaration.
By Henry McGhie, 2023
Report Art and the healing environment
By Vivienne Reiss, 2020
Blogs & conversations Finding the beauty in illness
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and this year’s campaign is focusing on raising awareness around secondary breast cancer. In this powerful blog, Churchill Fellow, Lottie Barnes (CF 2020) talks through her second primary cancer diagnosis and how it interrupted her Fellowship journey but inspired her to challenge perceptions around the imagery of illness. Photographed in chronological order (2021-22), with a high-fashion, photo shoot aesthetic, ‘Finding the Beauty in Illness’ documents and interprets an eight to nine-month journey of chemotherapy and mastectomy to convalescence and beyond.
By Lottie Barnes, 2023
Fellows' updates September 2023 Fellow's update: John B Warburton
John Warburton BEM (CF 1989) shared this photo with us. The photograph shows John posing next to a bronze statue of crime writer Dame Agatha Christie which was unveiled in the Kine Croft park in Wallingford, Oxfordshire on 9 September
20 September 2023
Fellows' updates July 2023 Fellow's update: Maria Amidu
Artist Maria Amidu (CF 2013) has been awarded the third and final Future Collect commission, which supports the creation of a major new work of art by a British based artist of African and/or Asian descent, for exhibition and acquisition at Towner Eastbourne in 2024. Maria has also done doctoral research which grew out of her Fellowship.
By Maria Amidu, 2023