Helen Pollock ‘The Markers’
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Medium: Bronze and Rusted Steel
The bare feet are a symbol of mourning and grief. The washing of the feet by the rain or tears might be seen as an act of honouring selfless love and service. These feet predate the commemorative sculpture ‘Victory Medal’. First shown at the NZ Sculpture Onshore in 2009, ‘Victory Medal’ subsequently toured to provincial museums throughout New Zealand, before travelling by sea for installations in three WW1 battlefield towns in Europe for their WW1 Centenaries: Arras, France: Battle of Arras, April 9, 1916, Messines, Belgium for the Battle of Messines Ridge, June 1917.
Helen Pollock
When Helen Pollock first started exhibiting in the 1980s, her sculpture had a distinctly feminist perspective in theme, form, and content. More recently, she has focused on commemorative and memorial work, giving particular consideration to the sacrifices made by New Zealanders during World War I (WWI). The impetus for this comes from personal experience. Pollock’s father was a member of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force that saw action on the western front during WWI. He died when Pollock was nine years old, and, as was the custom of the time, her mother put a few mementoes in a box in a bottom drawer and the family learned not to talk about it.
