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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Harriet Sherwood Arts and culture correspondent

Artist reproduces Alderney ‘Nazi execution site’ in London

Artist and sculptor Piers Secunda in his east London studio
Artist and sculptor Piers Secunda in his east London studio with moulds of the bullet-damaged wall behind him. Photograph: Linda Nylind/The Guardian

A dark chapter in the story of a tiny British island is to be depicted in a reproduction of a Nazi execution site created by an artist whose work explores the impact of destruction and violence.

Piers Secunda has taken a mould of a bullet-damaged wall, part of a Victorian fort on Alderney, one of the Channel Islands, from which he will make a cast to be exhibited in London next month.

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