A Guiding Point by Tim Godden

After the Great War the Imperial War Graves Commission set about making permanent the cemeteries, burial sites and sporadic individual burials that had been left behind.

This talk will explore how the team of junior architects, all of whom were former soldiers, undertook this work.

It will show how as well as designing beautiful spaces for the fallen, they used this opportunity to create a memorial to both the landscapes and experiences of the war on the Western Front.Tim is an artist and architectural historian based in North Devon.

His academic work has explored the Imperial War Graves Commission design project of the 1920s and 30s, with a particular focus on the relationship between the wartime and memorial landscapes.

He has a PhD in architecture, and has spoken about his work at universities and museums throughout Europe.

His artwork, predominantly created using a combination of watercolour, gouache and collage techniques, explores similar themes of architecture, landscape and the layering of memory upon both.