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The background to the project When my mum died in 2019, I had the daunting task of going through her possessions and distributing her many books and clothing items to family and charities. I spent a lot of time reading her letters, learning about the various committees she was involved in. My Mum, her friends Gene Martin, Lynnett Bracket, Maudline Bracket, Enid Richardson, Connie Marks, Theresa Richards and others of her circle of women were a force of nature. Their stories span a lifetime of community involvement and activism. They were involved in so many projects, especially in their retirement years. I started to contemplate on all the information, the pictures, letters, fabrics and clothing dating back to the fifties, sixties and seventies. As a print designer, I took in all this information and responded the only way I knew how, and started designing prints that reflected all these influences. At the same time the Government was giving way on honouring their generation by finally acknowledging their contribution to British society. The Home Office implanted the phrase Windrush Generation in peoples’ minds, so I decided to go with the flow and use the name that has become an iconic symbol for that generation. I created the Wynderush Legacy Print Collection. Spelling it differently sets it apart from the Windrush transportation war ship that brought a number of Caribbean people to England in 1947, but at the same time placing the print collection and what it embodies in the same historical time line.