Esther Ward Inverness-shire, United Kingdom
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Esther Ward describes her artistic practice as working with a lifelong interest in the connective threads of place, people and materials. She is currently exploring the paradox of powerlessness and resilience in the narratives of place.

Often site or event specific, Esther considers her work as an invitation for others to find space to connect with their own life stories. She has worked in diverse locations from derelict buildings; landscapes of historic interest; a shipping container and within museums.

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Bloodlines, Mixed medium, 2019, £1000

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Bloodlines

01/11/2021 — 03/11/2021

An installation exploring parallel themes of widowhood after the Great War 1914-18. Using an inherited iron bedstead the artist explored the life of her maternal Grandmother whose husband , gassed in WW1 came home crippled with lung disease and died . Living in the small croftimg community of Inverasdale , beside Loch Ewe, research into the...

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