Exhibition to mark war’s end
Quaker contributions have been made to the exhibition 'Conflicting Views: Pacifist Artists'
The Library of the Religious Society of Friends has contributed material to an exhibition to mark the centenary of the ending of world war one.
Conflicting Views: Pacifist Artists explores the ways artists who were conscientious objectors and pacifists responded to conflicts through their art.
Eleven pieces of artwork were selected by the curator Gill Clarke from a diverse collection of formats, from a sculpture and large watercolour panel to small prints and a hardback book.
The artwork includes a watercolour by Ernest Procter (1886-1935) and four prints by George P Micklewright (1893-1951), who drew satirical cartoons of being a conscientious objector in prison during the first world war.
There is also a sculpture entitled The Sentinel by Hugo Powell (1919-2014), a conscientious objector who volunteered with the Friends’ Ambulance Unit. He was not a Quaker, but was sympathetic to Friends.
