L'Armour

L'armour - The Armoured Heart was created by artist Stuart Melrose with local young people, utilising some of the weapons reclaimed from amnesty bins.

The artist says: ‘When speaking to Stuart and Amanda Stephens about what things Olly (teenager murdered in Emmer Green in January 2021) liked, one of those things was a Bearded Dragon, and the other a Pokemon character that was a dragon.’

‘I started looking at both of these and particularly the skin of the bearded dragon and then ‘dragon scale’ armour. It looked beautiful as well as being protective and I loved the way armour was something totally used in protection and was not weaponised at all.’

‘I started to think what could we armour to protect us and our children and the Armoured Heart came to mind. To protect you and all around from any pain.’