Qualla: John Lennon Peace Monument

John Lennon Peace Monument: Introduction

Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Lauren Voiers Creator: Creative Concern Ant Clausen, Public domain. On 9 October 2010, Julian Lennon and Cynthia Lennon stood on a grass slope in Chavasse Park, Liverpool, on what would have been John Lennon's 70th birthday. A blue sheet came off an 18-foot painted metal sculpture, topped with a white glass feather, called Peace & Harmony. The crowd around them included European ambassadors, the former Beatles drummer Pete Best, and several hundred Liverpudlians who had simply walked down from the city centre because the announcement had been in the morning paper. The artist, a 19-year-old American called Lauren Voiers, watched from the side. It was the first major peace monument to John Lennon in his hometown.

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John Lennon Peace Monument: A Painting Made into Metal

Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Template:PD-Art-Lauren Voiers Creator:Creative Concern, Public domain. The sculpture began as one of Lauren Voiers's paintings, called Peace & Harmony, made when she was still a teenager in Ohio. The Global Peace Initiative, an organisation that had set itself the task of placing peace sculptures on every continent, commissioned Voiers to translate ...

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John Lennon Peace Monument: The White Feather

Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Template:PD-Art-Lauren Voiers Creator:Creative Concern, Public domain. The feather has a story that runs back into Lennon's private life. Julian Lennon, John's son with Cynthia, explained at the unveiling that his father had once told him: "Dad once said to me that should he pass away, if there was some way of letting me know he was going to be OK -...

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John Lennon Peace Monument: From Chavasse Park to the Waterfront

Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Research CC, Public domain. The sculpture's first home was Chavasse Park, a five-acre green space on the edge of the Liverpool ONE shopping development, named for Captain Noel Chavasse, the only person twice awarded the Victoria Cross in the First World War. The park is in the heart of central Liverpool, bu...

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John Lennon Peace Monument: Second of Several

Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Template:PD-Art-Lauren Voiers Creator:Creative Concern, Public domain. Peace & Harmony is the second peace monument that the Global Peace Initiative has gifted to a major city. The first, intended for Asia, was installed in Singapore. The Liverpool sculpture represents Europe. A third, for South America, was planned. The Initiative's stated goal of ...

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John Lennon Peace Monument: Standing at the Edge

Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Template:PD-Art-Lauren Voiers Creator:Creative Concern, Public domain. Stand at the monument today, with the Mersey at your back and the wind off the water, and the sound that defines the spot is the rigging slap of small boats moored at Kings Dock, the gulls, and the occasional ferry horn. The sculpture is not large. It is not solemn in the way tha...

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