PAUL EMMANUEL

72pp., b/w  & colour illus., paperback, Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg, 2020

ISBN: 9780620871167

Published in conjunction with the exhibition, Paul Emmanuel, Men and Monuments, Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg, 2020.

Foreword by Julia Charlton.

Contributions include:

"Paul Emmanuel, The Lost Men France (2104)" by Annette Becker

"Where Have All the Young Men Gone?" by Karen von Veh

"Shrouds on the Somme's Body" by Pamela Allara.

Paul Emmanuel was born in 1969 in Kabwe, Zambia, and graduated with a BA in Fine Arts from the University of the Witwatersrand in 1994. In 2004, on the 10th anniversary of South Africa’s democracy, the first of his series of counter-memorials, The Lost Men, was temporarily installed at the 1820 Settlers National Monument, Makhanda (formerly Grahamstown). In 2007, phase 2 of this project took place in Maputo, Mozambique and in 2014, phase 3 was installed adjacent to the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, Northern France as an official event of the First World War centenary. Since 2022, he has served as a Fulbright Scholar in the USA, and is a recipient of the Gold Stern Mount Royal Emerging Artist Award. He is currently a content specialist and co-curriculum producer for the Medical College of Wisconsin’s civic engagement project, Talking with Monuments: Veteran dialogues on remembering.