15 March 2001 Edition

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Hunger Strike exhibition to open

The National Hunger Strike Commemoration Committee is to launch its exhibition displaying thousands of items next Tuesday, 20 March. The Committee is set to stage the first showing of the exhibition in Belfast's Europa Hotel.

Seando Moore of the Hunger Strike Committee, describing the exhibition as, ``inspirational'', explained that artists had been commissioned to design original art works for the exhibition.

Raymond Watson's carving, `The Spirit of Solidarity', represents the strength of the bond of men and women POWs and of their supporters outside.

Farhad Nargol-O'Neill created a piece using steel and copper depicting the faces of the ten 1981 hunger strikers looking in on a cell door, inspired by WB Yeats play `The King's Threshold'.

A concrete and bronze piece by Hugh Clawson represents the smashing of the British government's criminalisation policy, depicting ten bronze larks escaping a concrete block.

Mairead Keane, chairperson of the National Hunger Strike Committee, said ``this exhibition tells the story of the H Block/Armagh prison struggle that culminated in the 1981 hunger strike through the use of photographs, original art and sculptures, video and a display of rare prison artifacts''.


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