Photographers or photographic representations dealing with spiritual/biblical themes in a variety of ways
We all know that the image-saturated world we live in is invested with meaning – if seeing is believing, there’s a lot of faith circulating in 21st century culture, from high art to popular screen culture. But this believing is in a very obvious sense ‘religious-free’ – it’s not about the doctrine or creed of […]
Jacob’s Ladder – a view to look at art from Read More »
David Mach’s exhibition (30 July – 16 October 2011, City Art Centre, Edinburgh) brings together a multitude of work on biblical themes, timed as it is to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the King James translation. There are over 40 pieces, of which 5 are sculptures and the remainder are predominantly large-scale photographic collages. The
David Mach ‘Precious Light’ review 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 »
