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Untitled blog post from "Towards The Dunkirk Project"
The British Library’s major exhibition for London 2012, Writing Britain: Wastelands to Wonderlands explores the connections between landscape and literature in 150 fascinating and revealing objects from its 150 million-strong collection, including my huge book Thames to Dunkirk, which is […]
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Untitled blog post from "Towards The Dunkirk Project"
I’m very pleased to be able to conclude this blog about the making process of my monumental artist’s book Thames to Dunkirk, and my online interactive installation The Dunkirk Project, by reporting that the British Library has purchased Thames to […]
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Untitled blog post from "Towards The Dunkirk Project"
Once I’d got the idea of making an interactive installation around Thames to Dunkirk, with the sculpture as the centrepiece round which a River of Stories would flow, it occurred to me that a good way to start this installation […]
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Untitled blog post from "Towards The Dunkirk Project"
After Thames to Dunkirk was made and photographed, I felt that perhaps it would need to be exhibited in a context of related work, rather than alone. I made a group of 32 works called Watermark, including clay waterfalls, artist’s […]
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Untitled blog post from "Towards The Dunkirk Project"
To continue the tale of the making of Thames to Dunkirk, the 17m long freestanding paper sculpture on my online installation The Dunkirk Project: Once I had achieved my stack of pages, dried and fixed, my partner Frances and I […]
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Untitled blog post from "Towards The Dunkirk Project"
Before I started work on Thames to Dunkirk I read a lot of material, including first-hand accounts and contemporary photographs in the Imperial War Museum archive, and every book I could find on the subject. I regard all this accumulation […]
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Untitled blog post from "Towards The Dunkirk Project"
About the progress of The Dunkirk Project: today 26th May is the first day of the nine-day River of Stories on my online installation at http://thedunkirkproject.wordpress.com. Each day I’m telling some of the stories, more or less as they happened […]
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Untitled blog post from "Towards The Dunkirk Project"
Once I had the idea for the four lines at once, I could immediately see how Thames to Dunkirk could reference a number of other artworks by war artists. Richard Eurich’s extraordinary painting Dunkirk in the National Maritime Museum (Queen’s […]
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Untitled blog post from "Towards The Dunkirk Project"
Finding the form that would reflect the scale of the event, and the complexity of the story, somehow weaving the multitude of voices into a readable narrative sequence and giving that sequence a physical shape – these were the problems […]
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Untitled blog post from "Towards The Dunkirk Project"
The nine days from May 26th to June 3rd see the 70th anniversary of a legendary wartime event, the evacuation of more than 300,000 British and French troops who had retreated to the beaches at Dunkirk and were under heavy […]