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The Holocaust Gallery at the Imperial War Museum w The Holocaust Gallery at the Imperial War Museum will close for refurbishment on 3rd October. This is your very last chance to see the Auschwitz Model! In 1999 the sculptor, artist and designer Gerry Judah asked me to help construct a model portraying a section of the vast Auschwitz concentration camp as it existed in 1944. Although it has been over 20 years since the model was completed I still regard it as perhaps the most important project I have worked on and certainly the one which required the most emotional energy as well as creative skill. The Imperial War Museum had approached Gerry to create a simple block representation of a crucially important section of the camp for their new Holocaust Gallery. The model was to include the famous watchtower gates through which the railway brought the prisoners, the disembarkation ramp where the prisoners were ‘sorted’, a series of typical accommodation huts and finally the infamous building comprising the gas chamber and crematorium. The boundaries of the model enabled the entire story and purpose of the camp to be laid out in one single tableau, a diorama measuring twelve metres long and three metres wide. The genius of Gerry’s model design is that it shows each of the various episodes of the experience of the prisoner being simultaneously represented. Time has stood still for each event and the museum visitor sees the train entering the camp, and then the same train on the ramp; prisoners being grouped by sex and fitness to work, and then the same prisoners walking to their place of execution. The IWM were, I think, persuaded by Gerry to change the brief from a simple block model showing positions of buildings to what became a sculpture of cultural significance. Now that plans have been drawn up for a new Holocaust Gallery at the IWM the life of the model is at an end. I urge you to to visit the Imperial War Museum in the next few days to take one last look at this iconic artwork. @gerryjudah #holocaust #auschwitz #imperialwarmuseum @iwmlondon #neverforget #museumart #modelmaking
This commission was a real pleasure to make. Const This commission was a real pleasure to make. Constructing a portrait of a building which would not be considered all that remarkable to many made it all the better. In miniature there’s a quality which people seem to love. It’s ironic that the smaller the object gets, the more noticeable it becomes! I was asked to make two duplicate models of this much loved home in north London for two brothers who grew up there. The quote printed on the mount was a family saying of their late father’s. #familyhome #houseportrait #architecturelovers #londonlife #victorianhouse #lovehome #miniature #homeinterior #specialplace #historichouse #familysayings
A very lovely house in Notting Hill, complete with A very lovely house in Notting Hill, complete with a totem pole in the garden! Not had to make many of them before! #miniature #nottinghill #londonarchitecture #streetsoflondon #architecturelovers #architecturaldesign #architecturalgifts #listedbuilding #londonproperty #handmade #houseportrait #housefront #modelhouses
Looking a little gaudy in its unpainted form, this Looking a little gaudy in its unpainted form, this section of my latest model is nearing completion. Trouble is, I’m building the whole street, so only another 22 other houses to go! This particular house is by far the most interesting in the whole of Cloth Fair. It is the oldest example of a medieval building still in use as a private residence in London. #clothfair #cityoflondon #cityhistory #diorama #scenicdesign #setdesign #londonstreets #miniature #model #Londonarchitecture #architecturelovers #architecturalart #Londonliving #houseportrait #smithfieldmarket
In hindsight I wish that I had got the angles of m In hindsight I wish that I had got the angles of my model shots precisely the same as these views of the real building but you can’t have everything I suppose. This beautiful Georgian house was constructed around 1800 by Charles Harcourt Masters of Bath. The model has taken about three months to make and measures 130cm x 40cm. It was commissioned as a surprise birthday gift! #handmade #modelmaking #miniature #architecturalgifts #batharchitecture #architecturelovers #architecturalart #houseportrait #heritage #Georgianarchitecture #listedbuilding #historichouses #heritagearchitecture #landmark #georgianhouse
Just have to say a huge thank you to @hawkinsframi Just have to say a huge thank you to @hawkinsframing for the terrific job they have done building me a vitrine case for my architectural model complete with anti-reflective glass. It frames the model beautifully! #southlondonart #artframer #handmade #architecturelovers #architecturalart #houseportrait #heritage #Georgianarchitecture #listedbuilding #historichouses
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