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Art from Ammunition: Trench Art from the First World War

15 July 2014- 14 December 2014

About the
exhibition

As part of a national programme to mark the centenary of the start of the First World War, this small display of objects from a Warwickshire-based private collection of Trench Art was situated within Compton Verney’s own Folk Art collection galleries. Trench Art is a term used to describe objects made from the by-products of 20th and 21st century warfare, but is most widely associated with the First World War. The display included decorated shell cases, carved sections of a propeller, rifle cartridges and embroidered flour sacks from the USA to occupied Belgium. These folk art objects were created by servicemen, civilians and prisoners of war from over 20 countries and are a reminder of the global scale of the conflict.