A Blend of Futility, Poetry and Bronze: Whelan makes Owens - Unforgettable
When I first saw Jim Whelan's magnificent bronze monument, Futility, words from, Margaret Macmillan's recent Reith Lecture, echoed in my mind. She spoke on the subject of the paradox that things of great beauty come out of an attempt to deal with war. She said, "It’s curious, I think, that not all wars seem to produce the same level of artistic engagement. The First World War, it seems to me, produced much greater literature, much greater poetry, much greater questioning of t
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See me in TimeOut. I'm discussing my day job, as a sculptural conservator, which is where I got the idea for this first novel A Rarer Gift Than Gold #LucyBranch #ARarerGiftThanGold #Conservator #Statues #Sculpture #TimeOut
