This is one of my submissions to an art competition run by the Three Faiths Forum in London this month. It’s a template for a print that will have gold detail in some of the fire-trails – I’m about to discover the techniques involved in using laser-cutting to create a stencil, followed by the application […]
Interfaith art competition entry Read More »
Has he retreated to the safer places for conventional religious art, like above an altar or in the carefully crafted designs of church kneelers? Is he buried somewhere in the easy appropriation of sign and symbol, or Biblical reference? Does he speak through artists’ attempts to reference the spiritual, even if they don’t know what
Where is God in contemporary art? Read More »
(New work for exhibition at the Grant Bradley Gallery’s group show Walking Through the Veil, Bedminster, Bristol). Trees and forests have long been held as places of mystical encounter. For Britons, it’s in our psyche, and we defend woodland religiously. Even if only as a place of nominally unspoilt nature, it’s a demarcated zone for
What can you see in a cathedral of trees? Read More »
These 22 framed pictures of church/cathedral architecture open a world on pattern and symmetry. If I was to conjure up the heavy solid stone vaulting and the expanse of cavernous space that I feel in cathedrals, this is how I’d frame it. Kaleidoscope and repetition bring balance to something that’s as much about the experience
Mark Fairhurst review Read More »
Landscape can provide a healing element, and the gulf between nature and civilisation that has been exacerbated by industrialization becomes bearable… Landscape becomes the window of our relationship with reality, images of landscape becoming a reflection on ourselves… When photographs reproduce a landscape, they show us what is different about it, what separates it from
Vanishing Landscapes Read More »
Content and form are not as romantic as you might think, when getting down to making work about nature. It’s messy. Ideas get tangled, over-evolved, and you lose your neat camera-eyed perception. Backtracks, cover-ups, false-starts tumble into the day’s progression – I’d forgotten how mixed up you can feel. And landscapes don’t fit the frame
Getting my hands dirty Read More »
Over 8 months of maternity leave and I’m about to jump in to work again. That’s a long time on the pause button. What will fill the space on the board? Where to start? 10 things are circling, so I’ll let you know which ones land, which fly off, and which I get into almighty
Begin at the beginning Read More »
