​ In Service - Salford Museum and Art Gallery and Ordsall Hall, 31st July - 10th November 2017

 In Service - Salford Museum and Art Gallery and Ordsall Hall, 31st July - 10th November 2017

To mark the centenary of the Battle of Passchendaele, I have been artist in residence at Salford Museum & Art Gallery and the Working Class Movement Library.

The outcome of this 12 month research period is the creation of 226 commemorative ceramic plates. Individual plates reference every war since the end of World War I, when it was fought and the number of fatalities for that conflict. The plates will be placed into regular dinner service in the Gallery Cafe, presenting the findings of the research directly to visitors.

The plates will be presented for service on 31 July 2017 and later decommissioned on 10 November 2017 to coincide with the centenary of the Battle of Passchendaele, which runs over these exact dates (3 months, 1 week and 3 days).

“Each plate marks a global conflict since the end of "The war to end all wars" of which there have been 226  and over 67million fatalities. I want this work to become part of the domestic environment and our consciousness; to remember those that have been involved in conflict or those who still are..."

The plates were created with help from over 75 volunteers during a week long mass participatory workshop at Salford Museum and Art Gallery cafe.

Exhibition continues until November 10th 2017 , Salford Musem and Art Gallery, Peel Park, Crescent, Salford M5 4WU
Monday to Friday 9.30am till 4.45pm
Saturday and Sunday 12pm till 4pm
Tel: 0161 778 0800
 

Salford Museum and Art Gallery mass participation workshop 3rd to the 7th July 2017

I would just like to say a massive thank you to everybody who came down during the week and took part in this event. It was great to sit down with so many interesting people , share a brew and paint a plate. Over the week we managed to paint 176 plates, an average of 30 plates a day with some record days of 36 being completed. Over 60 people came over the week with many painting one or two plates, one person helped out by painting 10 plates in a day!!

I now have the remaining 50 to complete but am well on with that, and then next week Im hopefully firing the majority of them at Darwen terracotta.


A big thank you to the Museum team and cafe staff for supporting this event! more images to follow!