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22 September 2021

Queen and Country is a 2007 artwork by British artist Steve McQueen. The work is a set of 155 sheets of stamps, each sheet commemorating a soldier who was killed in the Iraq War between 2003 and 2008. The work was a co-commission between the Manchester International Festival and the Imperial War Museum. Funding partly came frmm the Art Commissions Committee which is the present day version of the War Artists Advisory Committee. More details here at Art Fund.

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