Henny Burnett - Guest blog for Wiltshire Arts
In the final post on the Wiltshire Arts Blog Henny Burnett gives her view on the collaboration so far, Cicatrix: Collaboration and...
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Jun 9, 2014
The Arts in Wiltshire blog
Guest Blog: Susan Francis talks to us about her collaboration for Cicatrix on The Arts in Wiltshire blog The invitation to become part of...
May 19, 2014
Fovant Badges Conference
Looking at another form of marking the land - the Fovant badges. Not far from us, these emblems have been cut into the chalk hills by...
May 6, 2014
Exploring Collaboration with Bath Spa
Really exciting day with Dr Alison Hems at Bath Spa University exploring the scope for collaboration between us. Dr Alison Hems is the...
May 2, 2014
The Mizpah ring
The handsome couple in the photo are Agnes Emily and Frederick Baigent. They were engaged in 1915 and married on Christmas Eve 1916. This...
Apr 23, 2014
Visit from Ewan Clayton
Priviledged to spend a rather special day together with Ewan Clayton http://www.ewanclayton.co.uk/about.html , talented calligrapher,...
Apr 21, 2014
Guest blog for The Arts in Wiltshire
Pru is the first to contribute as guest blogger on Wiltshire Council's Arts website http://theartsinwiltshire.wordpress.com/2014/04/17/gu...
Apr 15, 2014
Interview transcript with Henny Burnett
Transcript from interview with Henny Burnett on working processes in her latest project 'Local National Memory – Local Stories :A key...
Apr 11, 2014
Tree Carvings
Tree graffiti (or 'arborglyps' as they could be related to), at Half Moon Copse on Salisbury Plain. Some have been left by troops...
Apr 4, 2014
The Masks for Facial Disfigurement department
'Wounded tommies facetiously called it "The Tin Noses Shop." Located within the 3rd London General Hospital, its proper name was the...
Mar 22, 2014
National Memory - Local Stories
Henny Burnett has just completed another major WW1 related digital project and you can read about it here http://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/n...
Mar 19, 2014
Visit to DCBN
Last Friday, the staff from the DCBN centre ( Defence Chemical Biological Radiological and Nuclear), very kindly allowed us access to...
Mar 11, 2014
Circular Gas Trenches
This strange image is all that is left of the circular trenches cut on the Porton Down land in 1916 to hold controlled experiments with...
Feb 24, 2014
Hunting the Kiwi
Great day exploring the Plain with Prudence Maltby, trying to track down the New Zealand Kiwi. When WW1 was finally over New Zealand...
Feb 18, 2014
Field trials at Porton Down
Been sifting through old footage courtesy of the Imperial War Museum and came across this early image from the trials with gases on the...
Feb 9, 2014
Pru in her Salisbury studio
There are 'scar' drawings being developed for the series in preparation for Cicatrix
Feb 9, 2014
Feb 9, 2014
The Life of Dorothy Lawrence
I came across this really wretched account of Dorothy Lawrence’s life. She achieved so much, yet at the time so little was thought of...
Jan 22, 2014
The White Feather Campaign
The White Feather Campaign began with the creation of the white feather as a symbol of cowardice and unfulfilled civic duty. With the war...
Jan 20, 2014
The German village
Last weekend I visited the German village with my son as assistant camera man. The nearby village of Tilshead is virtually under water...
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