Steve McQueen: 'Queen and Country', War Art at Central Library

Just seen this war artwork previewed on Channel 4 News. In our very own Central Reference Library. As part of Manchester's newest International Festival. A cabinet holds proof sheets of family-supplied portrait stamps of the British military dead of Iraq.

These men and women fit the usual Royal Mail Philately criterion for being on a stamp. Not royal, but are dead.

Clearly exceptions are made from time to time for someone who catches a catch on the field in Brisbane. As McQueen says: "Why not someone who catches a bullet in the field in Basra?"

Neither the MoD nor Royal Mail are keen to progress the idea.

ALSO: Catching up soon I hope with War Art seen over recent months at Stockport Art Gallery, Cornerhouse, and Liverpool Tate.