Remembrance Art Trail
It consisted of
seven sculptural installations around the site. Each one was dedicated to a
different a charity set up to help x-service men. I suspect at peak times each
was manned by a representative of the charities but I went mid-morning on a
weekday and only one was represented. However each had a security man attached to it
who were really enthusiastic and informative.
My favourite
piece was “Lost Soldiers” over by the new Crossrail station which had helmets
on poles from different campaigns with the name of the campaign on the pole.
All the helmets were contemporary with the campaign. The remains of a Battle of
the Somme helmet were very poignant. This was a simple but effective idea.
Another clever
one was “Point of Everyman’s Land” in
the Jubilee Place shopping centre which consisted of Perspex cubes with
different types of ground in the bottom and a poppy shape made by stringing
thick red and black strong between holes in the outside of the cube. These were
beautiful and again so simple.
I also liked
“Brother in Arms” in Cabot Square. This was a figure of a soldier like a
classic First World War memorial but surrounded by the parts that made him up
displayed in a frame like an Airfix toy kit.
This trail was
such a good idea and sorry I have not written it up in time for you to go however
I will look out for more works by Humphrey as I liked his simple but moving
approach.
Closed 13
November 2016.
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Evening Standard
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