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Winchester Cathedral Art and Exhibitions

Monday 8 June – Saturday 4 July
Resonance – A Multimedia Exhibition

Antony Gormley’s Sound II and the crypt provided inspiration for a performance based arts project in 2007, choreographed by Katherine Gilkes. In this exhibition photographer Elli Goodlet explores themes of meditaion, baptism and rebirth through photography and moving image taken during the performance.
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(Date to be confirmed)
The Return of the Prodigal Son by Charlie Mackesy

This imposing bronze sculpture, standing some 7' tall, beautifully illustrates the tender embrace of a loving forgiving father. Charlie Mackesy is a noted painter and sculptor working in London and exhibiting worldwide.  

 

 

 

 

July (Date to be confirmed)
Detail by Alison Bowen

Inspired by a reredos and responding to a competition entitled, “Touching the Divine” this Still Life sculpture captures the essence of the Last Supper. The enlargement of scale, much larger than life-size, distorts the perspective and adopts the angular nature of the original woodcarving. Attention is drawn to the objects: a tablecloth, cup, plate and three bread rolls. The story is now told in the absence of human forms and this seems to intensify the Divine presence. When someone goes away, the everyday things left behind with which they had contact, can make them seem more present than ever before.

Monday 20 July - Friday 14 August
A Winchester Triptych - 'An honest religious thinker' by D F Stubbs

This work is inspired by a quotation from the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein: "An honest religious thinker...a believer who does not seek to annul his or her intelligence is like a tightrope walker. He looks as though he were walking on nothing but air.....and yet it really is possible to walk on it." Although there is much dispute about the status of Wittgenstein's own religious belief, Wittgenstein's image of the tightrope walker seemed to me to well illustrate the nature of my own faith, and perhaps that of many who struggle to reconcile religious intuition with scientific insight.

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