Art2Words 2022
Art2Words 2022

How do I know who I am?

by The Friends' School
29 Jun 2022

How do I know who I am? No words made to describe me. No book to tell my story ...

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Knowledge of the Trees

by The Friends' School
25 Jun 2022

Isla Younger (Year 9) Inspiration artwork: Bulleh ki Jaana mai Qon, by Alia Haider, Sometimes I feel as though the trees know who they are. They dance in the wind as though they have been forever, waving back and forth, back and forth. They change...

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The Chair at the Head of the Table

by The Friends' School
25 Jun 2022

Isabel Adams (Year 9) Inspiration artwork: Sahib Ki Kursi, by Alia Haider (2021) The chair looms Bearing down on us as we stand Our chairs are loud as they are pushed back from the table, But that chair remains still. The head of the table has been...

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Venture to Earth

by The Friends' School
29 Jun 2022

A place, down within. Underneath us it lies. Inside us it lies. Deep inside the Earth ...

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The Darkness Creeping

by The Friends' School
29 Jun 2022

The darkness hovered in the background as the sound of my footsteps echoed around the stone room ...

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Grey clouds loom above

by The Friends' School
29 Jun 2022

Grey clouds loom above, Closing in on Kabul. Below, a figure draped in a burka, Struggles beneath the strength of a man ...

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Quod video

by The Friends' School
29 Jun 2022

Around me, I see family, friends, teachers and pets, I see thin walls covered with musty old wallpapers that make up my home ...

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Ten Pound Poms

by The Friends' School
30 Jun 2022

Our family had been struggling for many years, financially. The death of my husband has been hard on everyone ...

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Young

by The Friends' School
25 Jun 2022

Clementine Chatto (Year 7) Inspiration artwork: Sahib Ki Kursi, by Alia Haider (2021) They were young, Oh so young, The soldiers who went to war, The men and boys sent to take the land, They were young, Oh so young,

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Smuggler from Tsundoku

by The Friends' School
30 Jun 2022

‘Hey, uh sorry to bother you so early but uh.’ He cuts short before shuffling. ‘Could you, uh, um-’ ...

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Cretan Memories

by The Friends' School
30 Jun 2022

Liam was lying in his bed when he was told by a guard that he had been given a gift. For the past 20 years of his life sentence, he had never been given a gift ...

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Can

by The Friends' School
29 Jun 2022

The corner shop found where one would expect, and on a cold early morning ...

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Lost in Translation by Alia Haider

by The Friends' School
23 Dec 2021

Artist’s Statement