Title: Wounded
Description: This collection supports and promotes awareness to the important mission and framework of the Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition's focus on the lasting power of the written word and the arts in support of the free expression of ideas, the preservation of shared cultural spaces, and the importance of responding to attacks, both overt and subtle, on artists, writers, and academics working under oppressive regimes or in zones of conflict, despite the destruction of that literary/cultural content.

"I am a mature student in the final year of a BA (Hons) in Contemporary Fine Art Practice with the University of Brighton. I live and work in Sussex, UK. I enjoy using a wide variety of media and processes in my work. My interest lies with the 'human condition' and the ways in which we strive to overcome the obstacles life throws at us. My current work considers life stories and, in particular, the ways in which we edit and censor our own life stories in order to create a unique identity"--The Book Arts at the Centre for Fine Print Research, UK website.
Subjects: Violence, Pictorial works, Booksellers and bookselling, Bombings, Iraq War, 2003-2011, Protest movements, Books and reading in art, Intellectual life, Social conditions, Censorship, Terrorism in art, In art, War and civilization, Vehicle bombs, Visual literature, Specimens, Identity (Philosophical concept) in art, Artists' books, Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition
Places: Iraq, Baghdad, England, Brighton
People: Lyn Dale
Time periods: 21st century