Windmill Base - Exquisite People

Our Windmill Base is a pop-up space for community projects and illustrator residences. Set in London’s oldest surviving windmill, it’s a calm space for reflecting.

Exquisite People

Participants from Islington Centre for Refugees and Migrants with MURUGIAH

These characters were made by mixing different heads, bodies and legs. The parts were drawn by a group of people who have come to Islington from all over the world. They made work based upon their journeys in a series of workshops with illustrator MURUGIAH.

Each drawing represents a memory. The participants’ pictures include treasured furniture, traditional clothes and trees climbed in childhood. When combined, they represent the way our identities are built over time, and how they can change.