Afghanistan’s First All-Female Orchestra
Award: Graphite Pencil
Graphite Pencil / Illustration / Posters / 2020
Award: Wood Pencil
Wood Pencil / Graphic Design / Posters
The Orchestra of St John is a charity that passionately believes music has the power to transform lives. It raised funds to bring Afghanistan’s first all-female orchestra to Oxford to support their music education. To thank all their supporters, the OSJ asked Williams Murray Hamm to create a commemorative poster. They designed a traditional handwoven rug incorporating the apparatus of war and depicting the orchestra’s incredible journey, and commissioned its production with a women’s charity from Kabul. It was photographed to create posters, which were sent in the same rubble sack that Afghan rugs are traditionally dispatched in.
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