The Friendly Army - WW1 commemorative sculpture project at East Kent Railway

Stark, Gabor (2016) The Friendly Army - WW1 commemorative sculpture project at East Kent Railway. [Sculpture, Site-specific work]

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Creators:

Stark, Gabor

Description/Abstract:

The project was part of the Dover Museums and Arts Group (DMAG) project 'Joined Up', which brought together museums, heritage and the arts in the Dover District. Artists were allocated to each of the ten participating organisations, where they researched the site-specific connections to World War I and created artworks that interpret each collection in a new way. I was the artist chosen to work with the East Kent Railway heritage line. The industrial railway, originally built to serve the Kent coalfield, today is run entirely by volunteers. Visitors can ride restored heritage trains between the villages of Shepherdswell and Eythorne.

The Friendly Army consists of six sited sculptures that trace the historical connections of the site to the First World War and mark the thresholds and crossings between the remaining line and its surrounding landscape. All materials were found on site and the sculptures were built together with the EKR volunteers. Permanently placed in the landscape, the sculptural pioneers guard and survey the tracks, visually re-establish the former links with the East Kent collieries and guide visitors and passers-by along a sequence of stations and situations.

Item Type:

Art/Design Item

Date:

May 2016

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From Date

To Date

Permanent installation of six sculptures in the public realm (along the remaining East Kent Railway tracks and the adjacent public footpaths in and between the villages of Shepherdswell and Eyethorne, Dover, Kent), since 2017

2017

DMAG group exhibition in Maison Dieu, Dover, Kent, UK

May 2016

Photographs of the sculptures were shown in a group exhibition at the Cyprus College of Art in Lemba, Cyprus

December 2015

January 2016

East Kent Railway, UK

September 2014

May 2016

Projects or Series:

Art in the Expanded Public Field, REF2021

Additional Information:

15 building workshops were held with EKR volunteers.

Public lecture at UCA Canterbury School of Architecture, Canterbury, 2016.
Public talk and guided tour, East Kent Railway, Dover, Kent, 2017

Uncontrolled Keywords or tags :

public art, site-specific sculpture, WW1 commemoration, remembrance culture, audience engagement, participation, collaborative place making

Schools:

School of Architecture & Design

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Depositing User:

Dipl.-Ing. Gabor Stark

Date Deposited:

16 Aug 2017 11:52

Last Modified:

01 Mar 2022 10:16

Stark, Gabor

Art/Design Categories:

Sculpture, Site-specific work

URI:

https://uca-9.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/3621

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