Creativity in Conflict and Confinement
For the Imperial War Museum collection, the Liberty design studio partnered with the Imperial War Museum, art historian Ester Cohen, and Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, an Iranian-British dual citizen who was detained in Iran as part of a long-running dispute between Britain and Iran. The collection inspires to tell the stories of those who tackle the complexities of war and incarceration through art and creativity. The designers relied on Nazanin’s personal recollections of her time in prison, as well as the historians at the IWM to the personal, but often universal stories of those who have been affected by conflict. Combining Nazanin’s stories with elements from the Liberty archive as well as the IWM’s Collection, the Liberty design studio created three designs rich with detail and symbolism.