In collaboration with artist Joe Caslin and Nerve Centre, the Kindred Collective - a group of young women born after the Good Friday Agreement - reflected on issues affecting young people in Northern Ireland today.

Co-commissioned with the Visualising War and Peace Project at the University of St Andrews, Somewhere to Stay traces the journey taken by Diana Forster’s Polish mother during the Second World War, when she was forcibly displaced. 

The Freedom Women Collective, a core group of five female artists who resettled as refugees in the UK, worked with Freedom Festival Trust and visual researcher Dr Lee Karen Stow to represent stories of resilience, survival, and hope in the face of war and upheaval. 

In partnership with The Hunterian, Cathy Wilkes’ commission was influenced by her childhood in Northern Ireland and by histories and experiences of violence not usually given expression within official representations of war. 

This commission, in partnership with Glynn Vivian Art Gallery in Swansea, saw artist Heather Phillipson plot a sequence of sonic and atmospheric conditions that conjure airspace, aerospace and outer space. 

A major new art commission at IWM North, Chila Welcomes You is Chila Kumari Singh Burman's personal perspective on the heritage of conflict and stories of Indian migration to Britain after the Second World War.

Developed in partnership with Ffotogallery, Audrey Albert’s commission celebrates the multiplicity of Chagossian identities, and how they reclaim and live their identities in countries that have never quite been “home”. 

Photojournalist Anastasia Taylor-Lind explores the diverse roles of women in the Royal Air Force today, in partnership with Bentley Priory Museum. The project was also inspired by women who served in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force during the Second World War.