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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Harriet Sherwood Arts and culture correspondent

EXPLAINED: Artist reproduces alderney nazi execution site in london | Vintage Vibes

Artist and sculptor Piers Secunda in his east London studio
Artist and sculptor Piers Secunda in his east London studio with moulds of the bullet-damaged wall behind him. Photograph: Linda Nylind/The Guardian

A dark chapter in the story of a tiny British island is to be depicted in a reproduction of a Nazi execution site created by an artist whose work explores the impact of destruction and violence.

Piers Secunda has taken a mould of a bullet-damaged wall, part of a Victorian fort on Alderney, one of the Channel Islands, from which he will make a cast to be exhibited in London next month.

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