Stations of the Cross
Stations of the Cross/ Forces of Creation is a work that has been shown on several occasions, including at Llandaff, St David’s and Norwich Cathedrals. It is an attempt to use art to understand a central conundrum in Christian theology - why a God of love created a world in which suffering is inevitable? The 15 paintings can be seen in sequence as a version of the Stations of the Cross, the story of Jesus’s trial and crucifixion. However when the images are joined together they make a totally different work on the subject of the on-going forces of creation to be seen in nature. The work was made in 2010 for my MA degree show and I worked on it through Lent using a Medieval Church as a temporary studio.
The scourging of Christ - in the combined work this image becomes a decomposing bird, based on one I found on a beach in Shetland
The dead Jesus is laid in the tomb - an image which in its other context represents the new moon opposite the sun which represents the Resurrection
The Agony in the garden of Gethsemane
Stations of the Cross - Forces of Creation was shown in three cathedrals. At Llandaff, Norwich and St David’s. It was shown both the story of The Passion in sequence and combined to one image looking at how the on-going forces of nature are a constant creative and destructive force.
