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Flags and Flowers, Drapeaux et Fleurs 2019, (details) Tom Ranahan.

The installation presents the national flags that make up the European Union, together with the national flowers adopted by these countries. A number of countries have the same flower, the artist reflected that these nations have more points in common than differences.

L’installation présente les drapeaux nationaux qui composent l’Union européenne, ainsi que les fleurs nationales adoptées par ces pays. Un certain nombre de pays ont la même fleur, l’artiste a réfléchit sur le fait que ces nations ont plus de points communs que de différences.

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Tom Ranahan - Shard end, Birmingham

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Tom Ranahan - Shard end, Birmingham

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Image Tom Ranahan

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Digital image Tom Ranahan

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Digital image Tom Ranahan

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Filmed by Dominique Etna Corbal, narrator Francis Viguera, edited Joss Burke at CAIRNHILL 

Photograph by Tom Ranahan - One of a series taken on the Battlefield of Culloden.

Translation:

“Did I ever tell you that in Bayonne there was an English cemetery that belonged to the British Crown? There was this square with 7 or 8 English soldiers that had died in an ambush in about the time of Napoleon the 1st. It was officially given back to France only a few years ago. During the centuries this small plot of land had belonged to the British Crown!”