Youth of Europe remembering World War One as inspired by Wilfred Owen

"Artwork entitled “Wilfred Owen and other war poets” by students from Shrewsbury Sixth Form College, working with renowned artist Carl Jaycock and students from colleges in Le Cateau in France and Walldorf in Germany, has gone on display at Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery. The exhibition can be seen until 15 February 2015. In November 2014 the students took part together in a week-long programme of events looking at World War I and developed a piece of collaborative artwork based on the messages and work of local war poet Wilfred Owen*. The work that the students have produced will cause visitors to Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery to stop and think how the lives of their predecessors were so irrevocably scarred or erased by the war. These were young men and women, like themselves, who witnessed warfare on a previously unprecedented, industrial scale. Carl Jaycock is a Shropshire-based artist who has previously worked with the museum and undertaken commissions for the Houses of Parliament as artist in residence. As well as instructing and guiding the students, Carl brought their work together to produce a large collage of Wilfred Owen made out of hundreds of passport strip photographs of the students interacting with museum artefacts."
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Source: http://www.culture24.org.uk//wm000021?id=EVENT515493