"Memorial in the Head" by Gail Ritchie

Born in 1966, Gail Ritchie is an award-winning international artist from Northern Ireland, currently completing a PhD. This drawing forms part of Ritchie's ongoing experimental work on the development of conceptual memorial forms for the commemoration of the Northern Ireland Troubles. The conflict was marked by sectarian division and polarities such as us/them or victim/perpetrator. To overcome these reductive binaries, Ritchie has developed a way of counting the dead in tripartite form which allows for the inclusion of the unknown or unidentified 'other'. The drawing "Memorial in the Head" is a schematic for an unmade sculpture. It suggests that we do not need a physical construct to remember at, as memories are always held within.

5"x7"