National Memory - Local Stories (Five Postcards Home).

“National Memory - Local Stories”, was a creative participation project lead by The National Portrait Gallery and funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation. The project explored how artifacts from museum collections can engage artists and young people (aged 14 – 18) in responding to aspects of The First World War. The project took place in partnership with local and national museums across the UK. I was the artist at The Rifles Berkshire and Wiltshire Museum in Salisbury. The work I produced was Five Postcards Home - "Tea & Fags", "Another Country", "Trojans' War", "Our Poison Gas" and "What did daddy do in the Great War ?". Each card responded to a particular object in the museum’s First World War collection. The resulting ‘portraits’ of these objects serve as alternative human portraits and are linked to relevant stories found in the First World War diaries of two local men. The diaries are also part of the Museum’s collection. www.npg.org.uk/nationalmemory