The Danger Tree ‘The Danger Tree’ exhibition is a commemoration of the Battle of the Somme, which took place between 1 July
with a withering onslaught of bullets.
‘The Danger Tree’ is a ground- breaking visual arts experience, and Scarlett’s most ambitious project to date. Working exclusively with Blippar, world leaders in the field of augmented art, the viewer can use their smartphone app to unlock Scarlett’s poignant work, stripping away the countless layers of paint to reveal the creative journey beneath each painting.
- 18 November 1916 on both sides of upper reaches ofthe River Somme in France. It was the largest battle of World War I on the Western Front; more than one million men were wounded or killed,
making it one of the bloodiest battles in human history. On the first day of combat alone - 1st July 1916 - our forces suffered 19,240 lives lost and 57,470 casualties recorded. The collection takes its name from the only tree left standing on the battlefield during the fighting, one which lay in No Man’s Land roughly halfway between British and German front lines. It was
In July 2016, award winning film set designer Kave Quinn transformed a 2,000ft space in Greenwich, London to create a blown out building from the French/Belgian borders. Parts of the exposed roof and walls echo to the sounds of war, as each of Scarlett’s paintings appear hanging from the walls still extant, each beautifully lit and positioned to take the viewer on an incredible journey. Following its success in London, the ground breaking exhibition opens at the Martin Luther King museum on the historic Liverpool docks this November to mark the end of the Battle of the Somme.
used as a marker where men were directed to pass through a narrow cut in the wire to make an assault on the German line. The Germans, however, had already identified the location and had their machine guns trained on it and, when the men started to make their way through the opening, they were faced
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