The Voice reports outrage as the “Windrush Untold Stories” exhibition in Brixton’s Windrush Square “were smashed and desecrated” on July 3, 2025, in a racially motivated attack.
[. . .] The Windrush Untold Stories exhibition, currently on display in Windrush Square, south London, was targeted earlier today (July 3).
Portraits featured in the exhibition were reportedly smashed and defaced, with organisers describing the incident as a “blatant act of racial hatred”.
The exhibition was created by Friends of Windrush Square in collaboration with the Empathy Museum, Photofusion, Born or Made, and the Black Cultural Archives. It aims to honour the history and contributions of the Windrush Generation through storytelling and visual arts, including work by the late Clovis Salmon, also known as Sam the Wheels—a pioneering documentarian and photographer.
In a statement, Friends of Windrush Square expressed “profound concern and outrage” following what it described as a “disturbing incident of racist desecration”.
“The damage appears to have been carried out intentionally with the clear aim of causing offence, hurt and division,” the statement said. “This act has caused considerable distress to local residents, artists, volunteers and project partners, many of whom are directly connected to the Windrush legacy.”
Chair of Friends of Windrush Square, Ros Griffith, condemned the attack as “deeply upsetting and shocking”.
“Windrush Untold Stories was created to celebrate the contributions and resilience of the Windrush Generation, whose story is central to the fabric of British life,” Griffiths said. “That it should be targeted in such a hateful way is a stark reminder of the ongoing challenges we face in building an inclusive and respectful society.”
Griffith added: “The desecration of a public commemorative exhibition of this nature raises wider questions about the protection of cultural spaces and the importance of confronting racism in all its forms. [. . .]
The Windrush Untold Stories exhibition aims to educate and commemorate through powerful storytelling and archival imagery, including the work of Clovis Salmon, whose photographs documented decades of Black British life.
For full article and more photos, see https://www.voice-online.co.uk/news/uk-news/2025/07/03/vandalised/
[Photo above by Ros Griffith: Claire Holder’s defaced image, one of many in the Windrush Untold Stories exhibition targeted in what organisers believe was a racially motivated attack.]