Conversations and Memories
Conversations and Memories
'Conversations and Memories' addresses the thoughts, feelings, fears, losses, hopes and dreams of ordinary people caught up in the horror of war. The artwork consists of groups of steel figures standing in clusters at different locations around the National Tramway Museum site. Five groups represent different scenarios which describe roles that men and women of the tramways played in the 1st World War. Working closely with the museum archives resulted in previously untold stories becoming tangible memorials to bravery and compassion in the face of danger and tragedy. The separation of these groups of figures also references geographical separation and could be read as people searching for, or waiting for, each other.