War Toys


WAR TOYS – 2014

One man exhibition. Pangolin London Gallery, Kings Place, London

In the August 2014 issue of “Galleries” the critic Nicholas Usherwood wrote:

“Entitled ‘War Toys’, Steve Hurst’s exhibition at Pangolin London may prove to be one of the more profoundly satirical shows relating to the First World War to be seen in London this year. A child through the course of World War Two and with 10 years in National Service and Territorial/reserve positions, Hurst knows what he is talking about. This group of small sculptures and artefacts comes out of a residency at the In Flanders Fields Museum at Ypres and the discovery of the curious Battlefield Cafe Museums with their weird mixture of mud and rust-covered relics and coloured tourist kitch objects. It also raised resonances of war-toys and man’s ambivalent fascination with them. Fierce, witty and curiously touching, this is a show that reverberates.”

There is a connection with Stephen’s ‘Early Works’

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