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SOME THINGS WE FORGOT TO REMEMBER:

CONTEMPORARY RESPONSES

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40 artists respond to the Swansea Museum collection and Now the Hero themed activities by creating a multi-media exhibition trail. Contemporary responses will be situated among the artefacts investigating memory, loss and our seemingly never - ending behavioural cycle of War and destruction.

 

www.swanseamuseum.co.uk

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https://www.nowthehero.wales/now-for-more/somethings-we-forgot-to-remember-contemporary-responses

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https://www.nowthehero.wales/now-for-more/remembering-our-heroes-somethings-we-forgot-to-remember

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Copyright 2019 Nawr Yr Arwr / Now The Hero. All rights reserved.

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'Nawr yr Arwr' / 'Now The Hero' 

'Some Things We Forgot To Remember: 

Contemporary Responses' 

'Swansea Museum'   (Photography)  (Elysium Studios) 

Swansea  UK   22 September - December 2018

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Preview: 2pm
Opening times: Tues – Sun 10 - 4.30pm. 

Exhibition continues until December 2018  -  Free Event

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Sponsored by

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Arts Council of Wales   .   Taliesin   .   Swansea University   .  National Waterfront Museum   .   

Swansea Council  .  Welsh Government   .   Colwinston Charitable Trust  .   NYA / NTH  . 

Swansea International Festival  

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'Black Square'                         Louisa Pankhurst Johnson

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Images  of  water  carry  within  them  so many  rich  symbolic  associations.  

Materially, it is an essential element of our human existence, as  critically  necessary to us as the air we breathe.  Geographically, it’s often a boundary, a liminal space that separates large and small land masses, continent from continent, country from country. It’s  used as a weapon of war, as a natural defence and as a means of escape. Psychologically, water can be regarded as a symbol of transition from one state of mind or being to another and it has been used in art and literature to denote a passage from a material space to a dematerialized space.

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My photographs seek to fuse material and psychological associations with water into a single image or a series of images.   During the Great War,  the English Channel was both a great physical divide between soldiers and their loved ones but was also a means of transporting letters to and from the Front to home. The light playing on the water is seen to represent a positive focus on the messages of hope and love and real human bravery conveyed across the channel during the Great War.        

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Louisa  Pankhurst  Johnson       Copyright 2018