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May 04, 2018
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Spud
By Brian Griffin, Gost Books, £35, 224 pages, hardback, ISBN 978-1-910401-21-7
Back in 2017, Brian Griffin undertook an artist's residency in Béthune-Bruay in France. He was approached largely due to thesomething – the location was just 10 miles from the constantly moving front line during the First World War. What was striking about this was that the area now hosts a large potato field and a McCain Oven Chips factory. Griffin then made a grim realisation – the soil being used to grow the potatoes was host to the blood of countless dead soldiers.
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