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FACELESS
2014 - 2018

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​Statistics are an
impersonal ​way to 
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​document slaughter

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​​2018 
Faceless with Strange Cargo, Folkestone to commemoration Armistice day.
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Cheriton in Folkestone was the garrison for the troops departing for the continent; approximately 9,000 men embarking daily.  While waiting soldiers were encouraged to practice digging trenches – it’s now the only remaining trench complex outside the 1st World War zone. 
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Cheriton also bore witness to the stream of broken casualties that where shipped back, most where patched and returned to the front.

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​​​2017
​This is Tomorrow 
University of Kent, Tonbridge
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2016 
By Means of  . . .
Arts Forum, Hastings

2014 
Snakes & Ladders  
Horsebridge Gallery, Whitstable

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2015 
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In the Dock 
University of Kent, Old Dockyard, Chatham

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​The bodies of over three fifths of the combined casualties of the 1st World War still have not been found.

​This forgotten waste is memorialised in translucent shirts, impacted by a single bullet, the destruction spreading from the point of impact - a representation of the implications for the individual, his family and wider society.


Not only have we forgotten in our everyday lives the implication of what life might be like if we had lost the twentieth century World Wars; but also the hard won ‘right to vote’ as recognition to women, after the 1st World War, for their endeavours in keeping the country running while a whole generation of their men went off to die. 

​We tend now to overlook sacrifice, loyalty, bravery and duty which was honoured in previous generations.  Today soldiers still go to war 
​to protect us, kill or be killed. Yet the public are reticent and prefer to disclaim any involvement.  Though we are involved, we are all accomplices to the firing on populations, the bombing and the patrolling to maintain peace.


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