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Women wept for Great War’s impact

13/04/2016

By Benjamin Millar

A new exhibition opening in Footscray tonight lifts the veil on the terrible impact war has on the women it leaves to pick up after the bloodshed.

Women Wept – the aftermath, by artists Karenne Anne, Tamara Watt and Heather Horrocks, explores the toll taken on the women left to pick up the pieces when men who went to fight in WWI perished overseas, or returned broken in body and mind.

The artists have worked individually and together to delve into family histories to discover how the courage and pain from a century ago still echoes through families today.

The FAIR [Footscray Arts Industry Resources] project included visits by Horrocks to inner-west libraries, knitting socks from original WWI patterns with women as a way to explore family stories.

Women Wept was funded under the federal government’s Anzac Centenary Local Grants Program.

It opens Wednesday, 6-8pm, at VU at MetroWest, 138 Nicholson Street, Footscray.

There will be an artist talk and morning tea 10am-noon Saturday, April 30.

Click here for more details.

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