"Knowing Looks" 1996

Royal Armouries Leeds

A commission from 'Crystal Clear' - a multi-venue art event which worked with the new Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds to explore issues raised by the building and its collection. I produced a series of photo/text banners for an installation in the Leeds Parish Church. These drew on the responses of eight local people - each with direct experience of weapons - a surgeon, a police firearms officer, two peace campaigners, two gun club members, a victim of armed robbery. Each collaborator visited the museum and followed a "critical" audio tour of the museum which I created for the event - their responses to the tour became the raw material for the final works.