John Baucher's art exhibition 'Worship the Last Thread as a Relic' will be on display at the Vault Artist Studios
An East Belfast artist has spent the past 10 years collecting old flags, bunting and iconography for his new exhibition that's due to open this week.
As a community artist with years of experience working with some of the most disadvantaged communities, he began to think that perhaps there may be away of using these “found gifted and retrieved flags and ephemera” to start conversations about identity and belief. dialogue. "Now whilst I may be using Victorian pencil boxes and velvet to frame items, the principle is the same. This is my most personal exhibition to date as I have created an 'assembled memory' for my own parents and family. I’ve been guided throughout all of this by a distant relative who served as a chaplain in WWII. “
"Since then I have been gathering flags and bunting from across East Belfast, along with documenting the deterioration of flags, in order to put together an exhibition that will get people thinking about how these are used in our society as symbols of remembrance and how they can mean different things to different people."
"Dismantled flags have been braided into multi coloured threads which hint at the geographical/geological ties of this Island nation, while Plinths also display a series of small scale sculptures made using interlocking eyelets further strengthened by cable ties.
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