Exhibition : Grandpré, Ardennes 15-22 September 2025
A selection of photographs from the exhibition and interventions across the village of Grandpré.
It is the mark of a collective work,
composed of fragments, memories,
conversations, interpretations and
traces of the local landscape.
What began with a single negative and German WWI postcards, evolved into a dynamic, participatory digital archive – a living repository of memory and material culture that places micro-histories at the heart of collective identity. This exhibition invited visitors to navigate fragmented narratives and visual traces that continue to shape Grandpré’s past, present, and imagined futures.
3D printed works made in collaboration with artist Jeffrey Knopf.
Selected images of works featured in the following locations:
Temporary Gallery and book launch venue
Fabric Print #1, Grandpré, 2024
Digital fabric collage, 3D printing, 3D scanned
and printed German model marching band
Alan J Ward and Jeffrey Knopf
with
« Clairon »
Vidéo : Phillippe Zeimet. Duration 30 seconds, looped with sound
Alan J Ward
Election boards by the Mairie
‘A conversation across time’ 2025
Quotes from postcards, residents, and the artist – changing daily during the 15-22 September
Alan J Ward
1 Place René Boure
Post-war postcard with extract from reverse
Digital print on paper with white emulsion paint text
2400mm x 1650mm
Alan J Ward
Below tower
‘Four brothers and a sister’
Fabric printed photograph and 3D scanned
and printed shutter catches from Rue des Quatre Tellier
Alan J Ward and Jeffrey Knopf
Old Public Shower Block
‘Immersion’
Inverted video self-portrait in the River Aire
at the batardeau
Duration: 24 seconds, looped with sound
Alan J Ward
Former Serge Largot house
‘The Quartet’
3D printed postcard, studio portrait of four
German soldiers, Grandpré
Alan J Ward and Jeffrey Knopf
St Médard Church, Grandpre
Colour photographic works from La Vojo Returne series 2022-25
Various sizes, archival HP satin Pro 300gsm
Alan J Ward
Series of ‘cabinet cartes’ from pop-up studio portrait sessions
with residents and their favourite postcards or memorabilia,
along with German postcard details.
Digital print, oil-stick, goldleaf and 3D printed bioplastic
Alan J Ward and Jeffrey Knopf
‘Temporary Structure’
3D scanned and printed ‘den’
Colour photographic self portrait of Alan J Ward
German postcard
Alan J Ward and Jeffrey Knopf
‘Fallen’
Paper pixel artwork, 3D scanned and printed ‘shooting platform’
Colour photographic triptych
Alan J Ward and Jeffrey Knopf
Videos :
St Medard church bell tower steps: Francois, 2024
Duration: 2mins 3 seconds, looped
&
St Medard church bell, 2024
3D animated scan of the bell
Duration: 24 seconds, looped
Both: Alan J Ward
Untitled floor piece
3D printed map produced from three overlaid sources:
two from WWI and one contemporary satellite view
Alan J Ward and Jeffrey Knopf
Exhibition : Abbey of Nore Dame de Chéhéry, Ardennes 20-21 September 2025
Abbey, outbuilding exterior:
‘Le Monde’, 2024
Fabric banner. Quotation by Belgium artist Serge Largot, former resident on the square in Grandpré. ‘The world of tomorrow is always prepared in the shadows’
Made in conjunction with Linda Dunn and Bethan Ward
Abbey, outbuilding:
‘Faces’, 2024
Video – micro details of faces from 1930s French postcards enlarged and pixelated
(4m 57s, looped)
Abbey, main corridor:
Untitled soundpiece, 2025
Recording of St Medard church bells and crows, embedded in the abbey’s confessional (6m 24s, looped)
Colour photographic works from La Vojo Returne series 2022-25
610mm x 890mm, archival HP Satin Pro 300gsm
Abbey, main corridor:
‘Reflective thinking’, 2025
Lightbox, 3D LiDAR scanned and printed torso of the abbey’s sculpture
3D printing in collaboration with Jeffrey Knopf
Colour photographic works from La Vojo Returne series 2022-25
610mm x 890mm, archival HP Satin Pro 300gsm
Room I, installation detail:
‘Fabric Print #2 triptych’, 2024
Digital collage, 3D printed figures
In collaboration with Jeffrey Knopf
‘Fabric Print #3’, 2024
Digital collage, 3D printed figures
In collaboration with Jeffrey Knopf
‘Untitled floorpiece II’, 2025
3D printed WWI French aerial reconnaissance photograph
In collaboration with Jeffrey Knopf
Room II, installation:
‘Cleo I’, 2025
Lightbox, 3D printed photograph
In collaboration with Jeffrey Knopf
Anton Blomberg photograph, 1903. Wikimedia Commons license
Etienne Arnaud, 2023
Photograph from pop-up studio portrait sessions of residents, with their favourite postcards or memorabilia
Untitled carvings, 2024
3D LiDAR scanned and printed fragments of the lost chateau of Grandpré
3D printing in collaboration with Jeffrey Knopf
Room III, installation:
‘Fabric Print #1’, 2024
Digital collage with 3D printed figures, enlarged 3D LiDAR scanned and printed model marching band members, Clarion, 2025, video of Philippe Zeimet playing his bugle in the public square (with sound, 24s looped)
3D printing in collaboration with Jeffrey Knopf
Three inverted photographic prints from La Vojo Returne series 2022-25, 610mm x 890mm, archival HP Satin Pro 300gsm
The artist book of the project is now available in my shop on this site.
