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War
Works is a display of work by artists Clayton and Mike Clements
exploring the horrors of war using a variety of techniques and a
range of media.
Clayton,
a former genetics scientist now living in Ross On Wye, uses a technique
once practiced by the CIA during the Cold War. Called ‘remote viewing’,
it is a code used by so-called ‘psychic spies’ to draw pictures
of military targets thousands of miles away.
Clayton
has used this code to produce a series of 30 abstract monoprints
which follow the progress of the conflict last autumn in Afghanistan.
Mike
Clements highlights war-related issues in many different ways using
anything from spray paint to interactive light sculpture. His work
explores military euphemisms for killing, remembrance and recipes
for armed conflict.
As
part of this fascinating exhibition, children from The Downs School,
Colwall contribute a seven-foot collaged charcoal drawing inspired
by their study of Picasso’s Guernica and produced under Clayton’s
supervision.
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