Fiona Compton is a London-based artist and historian from

Saint Lucia Saint Lucia ( acf, Sent Lisi, french: Sainte-Lucie) is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean. The island was previously called Iouanalao and later Hewanorra, names given by the native Arawaks and Caribs, two Amerindian ...

. Her work has explored the various disparities in representation of the Afro Caribbean diaspora within art and mainstream media, exhibiting as part of a collective and in solo presentations across the U.K and the Caribbean.

Biography

Compton is one of the five children of politician

John Compton Sir John George Melvin Compton, (29 April 1925 – 7 September 2007) was a Saint Lucian politician who became the first Prime Minister upon independence in February 1979. Having led Saint Lucia under British rule from 1964 to 1979, Compton ser ...

and Janice Barbara Compton. She is the Goddaughter of King Charles III. In 2013, her youngest sister

Nina Compton Nina Compton is a James Beard award winning Saint Lucian chef currently living in New Orleans, Louisiana. Career Nina graduated from the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park. She began her professional journey at Daniel in New York City, ...

finished second and was voted as "fan favourite" on American reality cooking show ''

Top Chef ''Top Chef'' is an American reality competition television series which premiered on Bravo on March 8, 2006. The show features chefs competing against each other in culinary challenges. The contestants are judged by a panel of professional chef ...

''. Compton works for publishing houses in the UK, taking photographs of European officials in the finance and banking industries. She is an ambassador for

Notting Hill Carnival The Notting Hill Carnival is an annual Caribbean festival event that has taken place in London since 1966

, a two-day festival in London.

References

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