'Our Soldiers: Group Exhibition'
Canaday Gallery, 15th October–2nd November 2008
The commemorative services held in Belgium to mark the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Passchendaele provided the catalyst and inspiration for this exhibition.
The connection between New Zealand and Belgium is celebrated in these works which involve both verbal and visual elements. The New Zealand landscape richly bestowed with memorials to our soldiers, both men and women, and the Flanders Fields in which our soldiers remain have drawn together printmakers, writers and historians to bring our shared past into the present.
New Zealander Kate McColl and Belgian born Lieve Bierque have drawn upon family stories and memorabilia, as well as bringing together the vivid colours and statutory of our landscape, in their work. Belgians Veerle Rooms, a visual artist and Willem Persoon, a poet and journalist, have with historian Johan Van Duyse brought together their visual and verbal perspective on the stories of soldiers who fought in wars on Belgian soil.
Artworks
'Our Soldiers'
- Exhibition
'Our Soldiers: Flanders Fields I b Aan Wie Bevel Graf (To he who Gave the Order)' - Veerle Rooms
- Giclée print
- Purchase price: $300
'Our Soldiers: Flanders Fields VI b Soldaat Ingram' - Veerle Rooms
- Giclée print
- Purchase price: $300
'Soldier I - Belgian Soldier' - Veerle Rooms
- Etching and chine-colle
- Purchase price: $735
'Soldier II - Belgian Soldier' - Veerle Rooms
- Etching and chine-colle
- Purchase price: $735
'Soldier IV - Belgian Soldier' - Veerle Rooms
- Etching and chine-colle
- Purchase price: $735
'Soldier V - Belgian Soldier' - Veerle Rooms
- Etching and chine-colle
- Purchase price: $735
'Soldier VI - Soldaat Ingram' - Veerle Rooms
- Etching and chine colle
- Purchase price: $735