Category: Public Art
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Pictures for an Exhibition
I was delighted, back in mid-June this year, to hear that some photographs I had submitted had been accepted for the Dartmoor Collective’s first ever exhibition at Poltimore House, near Exeter. A total of 19 artists and photographers were selected to show their work (over 120 images in total), and the exhibition was open to…
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Poppies: Wave project, Plymouth Hoe
Remembrance weekend seems an appropriate time to post these images. We visited the Poppies: Wave installation on Plymouth Hoe on 19th September. The artwork, by Paul Cummins and Tom Piper, is centred on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s Naval Memorial, and re-uses many of the ceramic poppies previously seen at the Tower of London display in…
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19240 Shrouds of the Somme, Northernhay Gardens, Exeter
Somerset artist Rob Heard began a new project in December 2013. He wanted to find a way to illustrate the scale of the loss of life on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. He started creating 12 inch figures, each wrapped in a calico shroud, ready to be placed on the ground…
Terry Hurt Photography 