The Troubles Archive is a collection of artworks from artists who produced work during and relating to the Troubles in Northern Ireland

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FLASH BACK

An agreement to set up an Independent International Commission on Decommissioning is signed by the B

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The Impossibility of Flight

The background is of tinted plaster slabs, intended to suggest Bavarian lithographic limestone which is famous for fossils of bird ancestors. In the slabs Bevan shows bones, weapons and protagonists of the Troubles: Loyalists, Republicans, British soldiers, in deliberately equal presentation. I suppose that when I made this piece I felt the three forces to be in rigid stasis, with nothing evolving. In front, birds marked with Nationalist or Loy

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