National Memorial to Journalists on the Frontline
A proposal for a national memorial to journalists killed in conflict, in collaboration with artist Rut Blees Luxemburg and curator Aldo Rinaldi. The proposal, for a site on the edge of woodland at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire, incorporates a specially commissioned photograph by the artist.
The photograph would depict a landscape marked by historical conflict, etched into precast panels mounted to a wall of local stone. Two grass mounds make a threshold and a space for gathering in front of the wall. The back is faced with insitu panels cast with imprints of branches from the Arboretum. The castings connect the memorial with the woodland site, evoking Albion and the act of bringing the horrors of war home.
The front of the memorial with etched photograph and landscape mounds
The back of the memorial seen from woodland, with cast imprints of branches