Image copyright Lee Karen Stow

Exhibition: poppies (women and war)

Sat 1 November 2014 - Sun 30 November 2014

Murray Edwards College

Murray Edwards College presents an exhibition of the latest works by documentary photographer Lee Stow, of portraits of women whose lives have been touched by war, from the First World War to the Iraq War, via other wars around the world, and of poppies, now a symbol of remembrance. There are two strands to the exhibition, and images focus on two themes:

- Poppies. From those on the First World War battlefields at Ypres, to the first fabric poppies designed to commemorate the victims of World War One and raise funds for war veterans, to white poppies – now a symbol of peace – and different coloured poppies, photographed around the world, representing diversity within humanity. These poppy images are beautiful and thought-provoking.

- Portraits of women, or their effects, representing women from Edith Cavell, a British nurse who was executed by the German army after helping Allied soldiers to escape a Belgian hospital during World War One, and Flora Sandes, a British woman who served with the Serbian army in World War One, to Rose Gentle, the mother of a British soldier who was killed in the Iraq War aged 19, and who has dedicated her life since then to campaigning against the war and providing support to other bereaved mothers. The portraits are accompanied by descriptions of each woman's personal involvement with war, every one of which is arresting in its own right.

This will be a visually stunning exhibition, with poignant images, each of which tells its own compelling story.

Supported by Arts Council England.

Cost: free