""My focus is really on the ordinary people that went into conflict, especially in the First and Second World Wars,""
""And because they weren't career soldiers, they brought all different skills from their working lives. They were woodworkers, metalworkers and jewellers, and the little objects they made are signatures of themselves.""
""that have been scavenged and harvested from battlefield landscapes, and then converted into other objects""
""speak of time and place, and have a little essence of the people who made them in them""
The exhibition collects objects made on or near front lines and emphasises ordinary people who entered conflict rather than career soldiers. Many items are formed from materials scavenged and harvested from battlefield landscapes and converted into other objects. The objects include reconstructed stained-glass fragments from Ypres, engraved coins, a Sharpie-decorated Ukrainian ammunition tin from 2022, and surviving ephemera such as troop-sent chocolate. Drawings and prints provide historical and visual context, including Turner's The Field of Waterloo, Nevinson's That Cursed Wood with the Siegfried Sassoon manuscript, and Sargent's Highlanders resting at the Front. The pieces evoke time, place and the personal skills of their makers.
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