Talk
The Individual in Conflict presented by Changing the Landscape
20 Apr 2016
The National Archives
London, United Kingdom
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Changing the Landscape, Sarah Kogan 2016
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Carpet Piece, Sarah Kogan 2016, digital video
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Palimpsest, Part IV Gommecourt, Jeremy Bubb 2016, digital video
Exhibition
Changing the Landscape
12 Apr 2016 – 17 Sep 2016
Regular hours
- Tuesday
- 09:00 – 19:00
- Wednesday
- 09:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 09:00 – 19:00
- Friday
- 09:00 – 17:00
- Saturday
- 09:00 – 17:00
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- Kew
- Richmond
- London
England - TW9 4DU
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- R68, 65, 237, 267, 391,
- Kew Gardens, District Line
- Kew Gardens, London Overground Trains; Kew Bridge, South West Trains
Event map
Changing the Landscape, a visual arts project by artist Sarah Kogan, is a profoundly personal and deeply poignant exploration of the cataclysmic destruction wrought by the Battle of the Somme 1916, in the centenary year. It is The National Archives’ first contemporary art exhibition.
About
Supported using public funds by the National Lottery through the Arts Council England, Changing the Landscape follows Rifleman Barney Griew's first hand account of his journey from Hackney, London to Northern France, training to become a mapmaker and scout in the five months preceding his death on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. During this journey, Barney sent home over 180 illustrated letters, photographs and photographic postcards, often writing more than three times a day for five months - leaving us a unique, multifaceted, three-dimensional view of the run up to the battle. Unusually, this unpublished archive is interpreted by Barney’s great-niece Kogan, who was originally read the letters as a child by her grandmother, Barney’s sister Fanny. The exhibition includes items and extracts of text from Barney’s unpublished archive, artworks generated by Kogan, archival material from The National Archives and a specially commissioned four part digital video installation by filmmaker Jeremy Bubb. Changing the Landscape project includes a multimedia visual arts exhibition, education and talks programme.
