ABOUT

I was part of the team that helped the United Grand Lodge of England honour the 64 Freemasons who were awarded the Victoria Cross during the First World War.

As well as helping to come up with the overall theme, writing the event collateral and helping to organise the 15-feet-long, contextual timeline, I had the idea of creating 64 life-sized soldier figures to represent each one of the men being honoured.

Each of the figures also featured a moving passage about their exploits and became a visual focal point of the ceremony, which was featured on BBC news, and covered extensively across media channels.

The wooden figures received particular attention, with the families of those being honoured being surprisingly moved to be ‘in the presence of’ relatives they had just distant memories of, or had only ever heard about.