Poppy Installation at Holy Trinity, Hull.

Send Me Your OLD remembrance Poppy

Holy Trinity Parish Church Hull

Poppy Installation - 2012

TRENCH

An installation by artist Martin Waters

The installation created on the floor of the church, with the help of many donations of remembrance poppies, is in response to my feelings towards war. I wanted to create something large enough to describe the immense empathy people have towards those killed in or as a result of war and conflict, including civilians. Last year I tried to emulate the poppies growing in the fields of Flanders after the battles of the First World War.

TRENCH, as described in the poems, brings to mind the trenches of World War 1 and the mass graves of many of our past and recent conflicts.

Walking through the poppy installation allows the person to enter its creation and be part of the artwork, not an onlooker, which then leads you past the many older war memorials on the walls and windows of the church.

The words of the old memorials echo my thoughts as I walk through the beautiful building, solemn and sad yet heroic and commemorated, lost but still loved.

“in thankful remembrance of those citizens of Kingston-upon-Hull who laid down their lives in defence of their country in the war”

“killed whilst resisting the great assault”

“died from wounds received at the battle”

“who served in peace and war”

“lest we forget”

“when you go home, tell them of us and say, for your tomorrow we gave our today”

Why not join us by laying down your own remembrance poppy?

Saturday, 3 November 2012

TRENCH - Holy Trinity Poppy Installation, Hull.

Clares poppies

Thanks to Clare and the many other people who have started to place their remembrance poppies on the TRENCH installation

Saturday, 29 September 2012

Poppy Installation
returns in 2012
Using the collected Red Remembrance Poppies from 2011
I will be creating a new installation

I still need your old red poppies
Thank you
Martin

Wednesday, 30 November 2011

THE FINAL DAY

Sunday, 13 November 2011

We Will Remember Them

Saturday, 12 November 2011

11.11.11.11

Thursday, 10 November 2011

In Remembrance

Wednesday, 9 November 2011

What words can I use.

Poem by Martin Waters
Image created from memorial rubbings at St. Marys Sculcoates, Hull, East Yorkshire.

Wednesday, 2 November 2011

Photograph by Terry Carrott, Yorkshire Post photographer

Photograph by Jerome Ellerby, Hull Daily Mail photographer

Great article in the Hull Daily Mail today, thank you.

Tuesday, 1 November 2011

The Start of the Poppy Drift

Saturday, 29 October 2011

The Zeppelin Window

Some of the remaining medieval coloured glass in this window is preserved from the wreckage of windows destroyed in a Zeppelin air raid over the city on the 6th March 1916.

Friday, 28 October 2011

will i get enough poppies

Sculpture by Thomas Earles 1860

Tuesday, 25 October 2011

Holy Trinity Parish Church

Monday, 24 October 2011

Colours

Saturday, 22 October 2011

MANY THANKS TO EVERYONE :-

Old Friends and New Friends, so many, but you know who you are!

The Royal British Legion-
North and East Yorkshire RBL
Hull RBL
Pickering RBL

Holy Trinity Parish church
St Marys, Sculcoates
St. Stephens Church, Spring Bank
The Deep, Hull
All Saints Junior School, Hessle
Dorchester Primary School
Pocklington Arts Centre
Hull College of Art