Metal artist Luke Perry, talks about his new sculpture called Fighting From Home.

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00:00My name is Luke Perry, and I'm a public artist working predominantly in the black country.

00:08And this is probably one of the most personal things I've ever made,

00:12because it's about reserved occupationists, who many of my family were,

00:17among with hundreds of men, thousands of men in this area,

00:20in industrial areas, farming land, lots of places like that.

00:24Because reserved occupationists in the Second World War were not allowed to fight,

00:28because their skills were so great that they were necessary to stay at home

00:32to make sure the war effort could carry on.

00:35So this is called Fighting From Home, and it's dedicated to people like my grandad, Eric Atwood,

00:41and a lot of the very gentle men of that generation who stayed at home and fought war their own way.