Press
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13th Parish Film Festival to host ‘taster day’ tomorrow with three films
THE 13th Parish Film Festival has gone from strength to strength since launching in 2019 and will be hosting a taster day tomorrow.
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Uncovering the horrifying hidden history of Alderney
A SPECIAL screening will be taking place at the Jersey Arts Centre this week.
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Alderney’s Occupation story shared on the big screen
Alderney’s Occupation story will be played out on the big screen from today with the Mallard showing ‘The Ghosts of Alderney – Hitler’s Island Slaves’.
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2025 Alderney Italy article
2025 Alderney Italy article
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Cornish Stuff
Haunting Nazi Secrets Revealed in New Film Screening in Falmouth
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The chief of police of amsterdam was here
UK artist names the “chief of police of Amsterdam” who was in a german concentration camp, on the british channel island of alderney.
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Piers Secunda: Historian, Detective, Artist
Piers Secunda: Historian, Detective, Artist
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Nazi horrors unearthed by artist on Channel Island
An artist who set out to explore the German occupation of the Channel Islands has made discoveries that shed more light on Nazi atrocities.
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Piers Secunda: ITV what you need to know
ITV WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
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Britain’s Holocaust island
The peaceful island of Alderney was involved in the darkest chapter of World War II. Both residents and politicians have tried to keep a lid on this history but, as MArTIN BrIGHT highlights, the silence is ending
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Index on Censorship – Alderney exhibition
Britain’s Holocaust island – article in Index on Censorship
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The Artiscape Gallery
British artist Piers Secunda presents Alderney: The Holocaust on British Soil, an exhibition of new work. The result of over three years’ research, it is on show at Cromwell Place until 15 April 2023.
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Piers Secunda, Alderney: The Holocaust On British Soil
Piers Secunda has recreated a 4.5 metre long execution wall from the island of Alderney which will go on display from the 15th of March, as a small part of the exhibition Alderney: The Holocaust On British Soil.
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The German Occupation Of Alderney
A new exhibition opening in London this week sheds new light on the way the Nazis treated slave laborers during their occupation of the island of Alderney in the Channel Islands.
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Alderney The Holocaust On British Soil
Cromwell Place, London
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The nightmarish reality of life in Nazi- occupied Alderney
Piers Secunda’s shocking and revelatory exhibition documents the little known atrocities that took place on one of the Channel Islands
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Bailliwick Express Guernsey
Piers Secunda is an artist and the latest person to confirm more secrets about the dark history of Alderney during the Second World War.
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The Alliance Bulletin
Piers Secunda : The Holocaust on British Soil
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Artist reproduces Alderney ‘Nazi execution site’ in London
Piers Secunda will tell story of bullet-damaged wall and forensic examination supporting theory
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Cultural Genocide: The artist Piers Secunda on stemming the eradication of culture in geo-political conflict
Cultural Genocide: The artist Piers Secunda on stemming the eradication of culture in geo-political conflict
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BBC News Coverage of the Ashmolean Museum exhibition: “Owning the Past : Mesopotamia to Iraq”
Piers speaks to the BBC News about his commissioned installation at the Ashmolean Museum.
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The Arab Weekly: Iraq heritage: from the cradle of civilisation to the vortex of destruction
Piers Secunda was featured in The Arab Weekly about his involvement in the exhibition at London’s Imperial War Museum.
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The National: The new London show that celebrates the works of Kurdish artists
Piers Secunda is featured in The National by Melissa Gronlund.
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Kurdsat TV
Piers Secunda is featured in Kurdsat TV.
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Middle East Monitor: Kurdish art comes to London
Piers Secunda is featured in Middle East Monitor.
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Kurdistan 24: ‘Road through Kurdistan’ exhibition celebrates Kurdish culture in London
Piers Secunda is featured in Kurdistan 24 by Wladimir van Wilgenburg.
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University of Houston: Painter spotlights the ‘art’ of decimation of Iraqi, Kurdish culture
Piers Secunda is featured in University of Houston by Katherine Adams.
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The Guardian: Art that survived Isis and Saddam regimes to go on display in London
Piers Secunda is featured in The Guardian by Henry McDonald.
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University of Houston: Art exhibition props stories of the past alongside the wars of the present
Piers Secunda is featured in University of Houston by Aldana Reyes.
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The Art Newspaper: Drawing with the ashes of Isis-ravaged buildings: Piers Secunda on the art of destruction
Piers Secunda is featured in The Art Newspaper by Aimee Dawson.
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Imperial War Museums: What Remains: Creating Art From Destruction
Piers Secunda is featured in Imperial War Museums.
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ArtCanvas: This artist captures what’s gone after the destruction wrought by ISIS
Piers Secunda is featured in ArtCanvas by Jill Ditmire.
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The Times: What Remains, Imperial War Museum — cataloguing the damage done to ancient art by Isis and the Taliban
Piers Secunda was featured in The Times by Christina Lamb.
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Document: Piers Secunda turns back time on ISIS’ cultural destruction
Piers Secunda is featured in Document Journal article by Caroline Christie.
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NPR: Saving Culture: The Art Of Piers Secunda
Piers Secunda was featured in this NPR Interview with Jill Ditmire
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WFYI Radio: Saving Culture: The Art Of Piers Secunda
Piers Secunda is featured in WFYI Radio by Jill Ditmire.
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NBC WTHR – Artist turns ISIS destruction into gallery exhibit
Piers Secunda’s exhibition at the Long Sharp Gallery in Indianapolis was featured on NBC WTHR.
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Frieze – Cultural Destruction Paintings
Piers’ exhibition at the Iraqi Ambassadors residence in London was featured on the Frieze website and magazine.
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Independent: Art made from Isis bullet hole damage goes on show for first joint UK project between Iraq and Kurdistan
Piers Secunda is featured in this Independent article about the first joint UK project between Iraq and Kurdistan
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The Art Newspaper – First joint UK project between Iraq and Kurdistan
Piers Secunda was featuring on The Art Newspaper article regarding his exhibition at the Iraqi ambassador’s private residence.
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Muse TV – Artist Piers Secunda
Piers Secunda is raising awareness of cultural destruction through art, imposing damage from isis bullet holes into replicas of ancient artworks.
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Financial Times – New works by British artist Piers Secunda
New works by artist Piers Secunda incorporate casts made directly from bullet holes made by Isis in three villages in Iraq, arranging the holes into moulds of Victorian casts of Greek and Assyryan reliefs.
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Whitehot Magazine – Piers Secunda’s Long Road to ISIS Bullet Hole Paintings
Whitehot Magazine – Piers Secunda’s Long Road to ISIS Bullet Hole Paintings
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Monocle Radio interview with Piers Secunda
Monocle Radio interview with Piers Secunda
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Time Out – See this inspiring exhibition of artwork full of bullet holes
Of course, ISIS has wrought its greatest destruction against Iraq and Syria and now, 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel in Chelsea is making some of that damage palpable in a show called “ISIS Bullet Hole Paintings” by artist Piers Secunda.
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The Village Voice – ISIS Bullet Hole Paintings
Piers Secunda was featured in The Village Voice highlighting his exhibition at the Thomas Jaeckel Gallery in New York.
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Independent: Meet the British artist moulding records of the fight against Isis
Piers Secunda is a painter-cum-sculptor who decided to travel to the Kurdish frontlines of Iraq to “bring the noise of the world” into his studio
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The Architects Newspaper – A snapshot of war with ISIS is on show at the Thomas Jaeckel Gallery
Piers Secunda was featured in The Architects Newspaper in April 2017. For ten years, artist Piers Secunda has been capturing the violent manifestations of geopolitics using industrial floor paint.
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The Knockturnal – Piers Secunda: ISIS Bullet Holes Paintings
The Knockturnal – Piers Secunda: ISIS Bullet Holes Paintings
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Juxtapoz Magazine – Piers Secunda’s “ISIS bullet hole paintings” are a carefully crafted record of cultural violence
Juxtapoz Magazine – Piers Secunda’s “ISIS bullet hole paintings” are a carefully crafted record of cultural violence