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A large outdoor mural on a university wall showing a painted figure and a blank speech bubble filled with handwritten student messages about education cuts.

Brain Drain

In 2011, amid sweeping austerity and budget cuts, I collaborated with students at Buckinghamshire New University to paint a mural that opened a speech bubble for their voices. Under pressure from funding cuts across teaching and research, this wall became a living protest. A place for reflection, dissent, and communal expression in those turbulent years.