Can you capture the essence of someone as beautifully as this Henry Lamb portrait of Bryan Guinness?
PHOTO BY ASH MILLS
Soldiers from 5 Rifles, Bulford, lay out the shrouds on the Cloister Garth
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Inspired by its current exhibition Henry Lamb: Out of the Shadows, and its partner exhibition with Poole Museum Augustus John: Drawn from Life, Salisbury Museum is calling all artists to create a portrait of a person who is special to them. The museum’s communications officer, Louise Tunnard, explains, “The competition is open to artists of all ages and abilities, using any two-dimensional medium such as photography, pencil, pastel, watercolour, oil, or collage. All you need to do is to make a portrait of a person who means a lot to you and then send a digital version of it to portrait@salisburymuseum.org.uk before 31 July 2018.” Prizes include tuition with fine artist Nicholas Beer at his Sarum Studio atelier, and with acclaimed photographer Ash Mills to learn how to capture photographic portraits. For more: www.salisburymuseum.org.uk
Rob Heard’s famous and moving Shrouds Of The Somme, received its first showing of 2018 in the Cathedral cloisters on 9-10 June, to commemorate the centenary of the end of World War I. The 1,561 shrouds, one for each day of the Great War, were laid in a column across the sacred garth in the heart of the Cathedral. Rob says, “I have lived with these shrouds for five years, working them by hand, and been in the company of these men working long into the night in my workshop. Seeing them laid out in public on Sunday and observing the impact their presence had on visitors was humbling. The shrouds are not graphic but they do, in their quiet way, bring home the horror of World War I, both in its scale and the tragic waste of young lives.” The event, which was part of the World War I Living History weekend and included replica aircraft and parades by Wiltshire Army Cadet Force, was organised by SSAFA – the Armed Forces Charity that has supported service personnel for generations. Eventually 72,396 shrouded figures, all hand-sewn by the artist, will be laid out at London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and displayed from 8-18 November as part of a national commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the end of the ‘war to end all wars’. For more: www.ssafa.org.uk | www.salisburycathedral.org.uk
Rob Heard with his World War I Shrouds installation
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