Twomey, C.

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100 Medals for the Future12 December 2018 – 31 March 2019CLARE TWOMEYNational Memorial Arboretum 100 Medals for the Future12 December 2018 – 31 March 2019National Memorial Arboretum On the commemoration of the Armistice, we are askingpeople to contribute their thoughts to an artwork titledMedals for the Future. We would like you to tell us whathuman strength we will value in the future in the face ofconflict.What words can honour those who show resilience againstforces of constraint and persecution.What human strength will we honour in the future that willbe awarded medals of achievement?100 Medals for the FutureA hundred years since the Armistice, the country remembered those whoserved and sacrificed in World War I. At 11am on 11November 2018, peoplegathered around memorials and monuments to quietly reflect on themoment when the guns fell silent.Twomey’s installation of porcelain medals is a lasting record of this moment.A hundred medals rest upon wooden benches, a fragile memento of amoment when people gathered to remember.Like medals awarded for courageous deeds or plaques inscribed with thenames of the fallen, Twomey’s medals honour an act or quality. Glazed uponthe porcelain medals are the hopes of those who gathered at the Arboretum2018, the qualities that we can strive to commemorate in a hundred years’time.Clare Twomey is a British artist who lives and works in London. Oftenproducing work in response to a site, she has exhibited at Victoria and AlbertMuseum, Tate, Crafts Council, Museum of Modern Art Kyoto Japan, the EdenProject and the Royal Academy of Arts.

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