YR 2 - Race, Power & Privilege Exhibition - This is Urgent: Go Slow
- The Homa Team
- Sep 28
- 3 min read
Written by Year 2 Trainees
On Sunday 13th July 2025, HOMA Year 2 trainees presented an exhibition at the HOMA headquarters on Lloyd Baker Street which was a culmination of our term’s work on Race, Power and Privilege.
Our exhibition was entitled This is Urgent: Go Slow in homage to Holiday Phillips whose vlog (watch here) on healing racism inspired some of our work.
Mark Making
During our term working on this module under the guidance of Year 2 tutors Trupti Magecha, Emma Rich, Sophie Boss and guest tutor Aileen Alleyne, we used ‘mark making’ in a variety of media to reflect on our learning about race, racism, white privilege and fragility, Empire, cultural appropriation and allyship.
Mark making uses approaches not dissimilar to art therapy techniques, encouraging the use of pens, coloured pencils, chalk, charcoal, crayons, coloured paper, scissors, glue and clay to write, scribble, draw, collage or sculpt responses to challenging material, creating two and three dimensional pieces of work.
We had a mark making session every training day during the Race, Power and Privilege module to allow us to express our thoughts, feelings, questions and concerns in response to the topics we were reading about, journalling on and discussing in group. Trainees from the global majority had the opportunity to work in their own group led by Trupti and the white members of the group were randomly split into two smaller groups led by Sophie and Emma.
In this video, Trupti and Sophie talk a little more about mark making, the Race, Power and Privilege module and HOMA’s commitment to build a more multicultural tutor team and to have trainee cohorts with 50% of the trainees from the global majority by 2027
Race, Power & Privilege - The Exhibition
This exhibition was our chance to share a selection of our mark making pieces with the wider community of HOMA supporters, friends, colleagues and family members.
The exhibition was launched with an introduction written by Year 2 trainee Bonnie
We were honoured to welcome photographer Wayne Campbell who joined us to speak about his journey into visual activism following the murder of George Floyd in May 2020
Here are links to photographs from Wayne’s iconic book A Celebration of Demonstration about the Black Lives Matter protests in London following Floyd’s murder, to Wayne’s gallery space in Brixton and to his recent exhibition at the P21 gallery:
Year 2 trainee Tamara created two playlists for the exhibition which can be accessed via Spotify. The second of these was created specifically to accompany the work displayed in the Anger room.
Photographs
Year 2 trainee Ash took the following photographs of the exhibition spaces which will give you a flavour of the work we put together:
With thanks to our tutors, our therapists and all the Year 2 trainees who entered into this work with courage, humility and the willingness to learn and change. Special shout out to the Year 2 exhibition organisers Mirella, Helen, Tamara, Ash, Bonnie, Rosie, Louise, Gianluca and Sophia for all you contributed and to Al for the blog post.
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The HOMA tutors appreciate the Year 2 trainees for bringing such a spirit of collaboration and teamwork to this project, creating a powerful exhibition that resonated deeply with everyone who experienced it.
As part of the Race, Power and Privilege work, the group also produced a photographic book. There will be another blog post published shortly to share this project.
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