Visions of War Above and Below

The development of flight and aerial warfare provided a new perspective for artists. The works in this exhibition span a timeline from World War I to twenty-first century conflicts and encompass surreal depictions of aircraft as creatures, abstract views of bombing raids and detailed drawings of life in submarines. Highlights from the IWM collection include Paul Nash’s 'Battle of Germany' (1944) and Alison Wilding’s 'Drones' drawings (2012). On display for the first time is Bashar Alhroub’s 'Heavenly' (2010), made on a hand-held camera directed upwards as the artist walked through an abandoned market overlooked by Jewish settlements in Hebron in the West Bank.