LOST GENERATION
Exhibition of art, drama and music from students at working with Andy Farr. Includes work from Trinity School Leamington and Cockburn School Leeds.
Pictures from Exhibition
Pictures from Exhibition
FORGOTTEN VOICES
Trinity School year 12 drama group performance of Forgotten voices of the Great War adapted by Malcolm McKay from the book by Max Arthur.
Anon.
Original music composed by Trinity School as the soundtrack for the Centenary Vigil film.
LEAMINGTON SPA
Andy Farr worked with Trinity School in Autumn 2014. Culminating with an exhibition at GALLERY 150
Faces of Battle
TRINITY SCHOOL
Year 10 Art Group’s response to Henry Tonk’s drawings of facial injuries.
A million British soldiers died in WW1, but twice as many came home injured. The biggest killer on the battlefield and the cause of many facial injuries was shrapnel. Unlike the straight-line wounds inflicted by bullets, the twisted metal shards produced from a shrapnel blast could rip a face off. Improved medical care meant that more injured soldiers could be kept alive, but urgently dealing with such devastating injuries was a new challenge.
In 1916 the artist Henry Tonks made pastel drawings of casualties from the Western Front who were being treated as part of a close collaboration with Harold Gillies, arguably the most important “plastic” surgeon of the period.
The wounds are horrible, you have no right to ask men to endure such suffering. Henry Tonks 1915
The Trinity class used photographs of themselves and latex masks made from shop dummies to explore the impact of facial wounds.
The faces were then damaged using pastel, paint, cutting, stitching and using stage makeup.
Sheri Horn, Head of Art and Ben Farr working with the class.
CENTENARY VIGIL
Trinity School, Leamington
10th October 2014
As an act of remembrance for the First World War Centenary Trinity School held a memorial vigil. The aim was for 100 pupils to take it in turns to stand on a plinth for two minutes.