Barbara Walker - Burden of Proof - Glenda Caesar - Turner Prize finalist 2023 - Towner Gallery

These are two of ten portraits merged with documents that members of the Windrush generation of immigrants had to show the Home Office. In recent years, they had to provide the proof that they had come to the UK legally, when they arrived in the post-WW2 era, to help rebuild our infrastructure and essential services. They came at a time when the paper-work wasn't so stringent and some, without the required documents, were actually deported back to Carribean countries and elsewhere, after decades of working hard here. Windrush was the name of the ship that brought many of them over.