Overview
Using charcoal and watercolor as mediums, this visual interpretation of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan represents the television images surrounding the conflict in a more lucid and humane way. Including images of army tanks, helicopters, handcarts, a gunman’s stance, the aftermath of a roadside bomb, and more, this evocative view of the war abolishes the distance that has come to anesthetize people in their home countries. A fresh representation of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, this collection of images is a moving artistic response to 21st-century conflict.Author Biography
Mary Griffiths is the curator of modern art at the Whitworth Art Gallery at the University of Manchester. She has exhibited work in the Origins of Nine at Islington Mill, Salford, and the 2008 Jerwood Drawing Prize in London.
