The Friendly Army - WW1 commemorative sculpture project at East Kent Railway

Stark, Gabor (2016) The Friendly Army - WW1 commemorative sculpture project at East Kent Railway. [Sculpture, Site-specific work]

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Creators:
Stark, Gabor
Description/Abstract:

The project was part of the Dover Museums and Arts Group (DMAG) project 'Joined Up', which brought together museums, heritage and the arts in the Dover District. Artists were allocated to each of the ten participating organisations, where they researched the site-specific connections to World War I and created artworks that interpret each collection in a new way. I was the artist chosen to work with the East Kent Railway heritage line. The industrial railway, originally built to serve the Kent coalfield, today is run entirely by volunteers. Visitors can ride restored heritage trains between the villages of Shepherdswell and Eythorne.

The Friendly Army consists of six sited sculptures that trace the historical connections of the site to the First World War and mark the thresholds and crossings between the remaining line and its surrounding landscape. All materials were found on site and the sculptures were built together with the EKR volunteers. Permanently placed in the landscape, the sculptural pioneers guard and survey the tracks, visually re-establish the former links with the East Kent collieries and guide visitors and passers-by along a sequence of stations and situations.

Item Type:
Art/Design Item
Date:
May 2016
Locations / Venues:
Location
From Date
To Date
Permanent installation of six sculptures in the public realm (along the remaining East Kent Railway tracks and the adjacent public footpaths in and between the villages of Shepherdswell and Eyethorne, Dover, Kent), since 2017
2017
DMAG group exhibition in Maison Dieu, Dover, Kent, UK
May 2016
Photographs of the sculptures were shown in a group exhibition at the Cyprus College of Art in Lemba, Cyprus
December 2015
January 2016
East Kent Railway, UK
September 2014
May 2016
Projects or Series:
Art in the Expanded Public Field, REF2021
Additional Information:

15 building workshops were held with EKR volunteers.

Public lecture at UCA Canterbury School of Architecture, Canterbury, 2016.
Public talk and guided tour, East Kent Railway, Dover, Kent, 2017

Uncontrolled Keywords or tags :
public art, site-specific sculpture, WW1 commemoration, remembrance culture, audience engagement, participation, collaborative place making
Schools:
School of Architecture & Design
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Depositing User:
Dipl.-Ing. Gabor Stark
Date Deposited:
16 Aug 2017 11:52
Last Modified:
01 Mar 2022 10:16
Art/Design Categories:
Sculpture, Site-specific work
URI:
https://research.uca.ac.uk/id/eprint/3621

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