Hannah Rose Thomas may have just started her PhD with UNESCO RILA, UNESCO Artlab and MIDEQ, but she brings a wealth of rich experience our team. 

Hannah is a Durham graduate in Arabic and History with an MA from the Prince's School of Traditional Art in London. Her PhD thesis is in ‘Evaluating the human and social Impact of Art for migratory and marginalized people – An Intercultural, Multilingual Approach to Equity.’ Her research interest is in investigating the restorative and transformative potential of the arts to support conflict-affected and migratory communities to reconcile, to heal the past and to re-build a future.

Hannah’s work is featured in a virtual exhibition with Google Arts & Culture to mark the UN’s Official 75th Anniversary Programme, ‘The Future is Unwritten: Artists for Tomorrow’.  

Hannah was recently profiled in Artlyst, London's leading art information website. She spoke with Jonathan Evens about her artistic practice of painting portraits of refugees she has met, showing the people whose personal stories are often shrouded by statistics.

In October Hannah was shortlisted for the Women of the Future Award 2020 in the Arts and Culture category in recognition of her work to use art to empower the voices of displaced and marginalised communities to be heard.  The Women of the Future Awards, founded by Pinky Lilani CBE DL in 2006, were conceived to provide a platform for the remarkable female talent in the UK. The awards will be announced in February 2021.

For more information about Hannah's work, visit her student profile page. 

Tryptch of Yezidi Women by Artist Hannah Rose Thomas

First published: 26 November 2020

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