Historic England

Immortalised

I was Assistant Curator on Immortalised (2018), a 12-month programme exploring memory in public spaces - how, why and who we remember, from the well-loved and famous, to the lost local hero. It comprised of a major exhibition in London, a national architectural design competition, a debate and a research paper.

The immersive exhibition invited you to enter four giant monuments that hold the key to our memorial past and future. From a Trafalgar Square lion to the Brighton Peace 'Angel,' to the boots on the contested statue of Edward Colson in Bristol. It also reviewed the challenging histories of some of those celebrated, and looks at how we might immortalise in the future, long after we are gone and perhaps, forgotten.