Date/Time
Date(s) - 07/11/2014 - 28/11/2014
All Day
Location
Woodend Art Gallery
Categories
A commemorative exhibition of paintings on the theme of the bombardment of Scarborough on 16 December 1914.
Scarborough-based artist Tim Knight BA has produced a series of 14 paintings cataloguing the fateful half an hour of shelling by the imperial German navy at the opening stages of the Great War.
This personal expression of paintings conjures up the time just before the war depicting the belle epoche of the hot summers of 1913 and 1914 when Scarborough’s historic gardens were just completed, and the later horrific consequences of the early morning raid by the German navy. When, out of the fog, came two of the largest German battle cruisers (part of a bigger flotilla which attacked the east coast): the Von der Tann and the Derfflinger. They proceeded to shell the undefended town of Scarborough with between 500 and 700 shells which killed 18 and injured 80 waking Scarborians.
The large canvas works depict, in striking colour, combinations and new imagined images the dramatic events of that week before Christmas at the start of a war which was supposed to be over by Christmas 1914.
There will also be displayed textural factisments: sculptural expressions of a factual content of the bombardment and its consequences.
At the open evening of this commemorative exhibition there will be a performance by the celebrated poet Tony Morris who has collaborated with the artist to produce a unique piece on the themes of the exhibition incorporating music, poetry and song.
This will be held on 7 November 2014 from 6pm till 9pm
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