Remembrance artist 'we must remember our fallen'
Angela Wright has created the 'Broken Lives' exhibit at St Andrews Church in Cotterstock, featuring broken mirror glass and local's knitted poppies.
Ahead of services of Remembrance here in Northamptonshire today, we're hearing from an artist who has installed a piece in honour of our fallen soldiers.
The exhibit 'Broken Lives' by Angela Wright is on display at St Andrews Church in Cotterstock. It features broken mirror glass, soldiers belongings and local's knitted poppies.
She says we must remember others sacrifices:
"Those people gave their lives and it doesn't matter whether it's 80 years, 100 years, 150 years ago, they gave their lives so that we could go forward, that we could live, live on in a safe situation, in a safe country. We we definitely need to remember them. "
'Broken Lives' is inspired by the John McRae poem 'Flanders Fields' and took four days to put together. She has created similar Remembrance installations in the same church back in 2017 and 2019.
Angela explains the use of mirrors in this years installation"
"Broken mirror glass to me reflects the broken lives of the aftermath of war, the dreams of men and women cut off prematurely, the very act of breaking glass, the fracturing, the force, the sound the violence and reflection, the sudden loss of the form, because I've been breaking glass for other installations and it's a very quite a violent, noisy act and you you have a number of pieces which you're left with and those pieces I will make.
"Installation with. So it felt very fitting in a way because many lives are lost in war. Of course we we know that and many dreams are broken and I I feel that the the actual installation reflects that loss."
Remembrance Sunday will be marked in Northampton with a large military parade stepping off from the Market Square at 09:30am.
This will be followed by the Divine Service at All Saint’s Church at 10am, followed by a parade at 11:45am.
Services and silences are to be held in Apethorpe, Corby, Earls Barton, Brixworth, Crick, East Hunsbury, Finedon, Daventry, Higham Ferrers, Irthlingborough, Rushden, Towcester, Wellingborough and Wollaston.
This afternoon will see services and parades of Remembrance in Burton Latimer, Gretton, Kettering, Oundle, Raunds, and Brackley.