Child of War - Private View

About Child of War:
Award winning war artist Arabella Dorman is pleased to announce Child of War, a major new exhibition, created in response to current global events and Dorman’s experience of working as a war artist across the Middle East and Ukraine. Showcasing Dorman’s latest paintings and installation work alongside artwork by children from around the world, Child of War explores the devastating consequences of conflict from a child’s perspective, as seen and told through their own hands and voices.

Held in collaboration with the mental health charity Beyond Conflict and the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral, the exhibition will feature art and literature by children from Ukraine, Syria, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan and Britain. Curated by Dorman and based on her first-hand experience as a war artist for nearly two decades, the exhibition will form a dialogue between the artist and the child, revealing the profound and lasting psychological impact of conflict-related trauma, the possibility of hope and renewal, and the ways in which children of today may be rehabilitated and supported in our increasingly divided and violent world.

This landmark Exhibition is a response to all children impacted by all wars.

Child of War is a collaborative exhibition, held in partnership with Beyond Conflict, the Ukrainian Welcome Centre, the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral & War through Children’s Eyes.

About Arabella Dorman:
Arabella Dorman is an award winning, internationally renowned war artist and one of Britain’s leading portrait painters. Arabella’s work explores the realities of conflict today, its immediate impacts and long-term consequences. She has worked as an officially accredited war artist in Iraq and Afghanistan for over a decade, and in more recent years has worked in Palestine, Gaza, Lebanon, Syria and Ukraine. Arabella enjoys a prominent reputation as a public speaker and fundraiser. She has been listed in BBC’s Top 100 Women, Salt Magazine’s 100 Most Inspiring Women and was awarded Winner of the Global Mosaic Award 2019, Oman Masterpiece 2021, and shortlisted for the Arts & Christianity Award 2020. Her work has been profiled across international and national television, radio and print, including The New York Times, BBC, CNN, Aljizeera, Radio 4, BBC World Service, and featured on the front cover of The Times, The Guardian and The Sunday Times Magazine.