'Station 11: Jesus is nailed to the cross' - Alan Stewart
'Rope/Clump' - Rodney Bailey
'Do this in remembrance of me' - Henry Shelton
'Windows on the divine' - Jonathan Evens
Redbridge Advent Art Installation
Visual Dialogue 2, an art exhibition for the Patronal Festival of St John's Seven Kings, begins tomorrow evening with an opening night reception from 7.30pm. All are welcome to an evening that includes viewing paintings, conversations with artists, and refreshments.
Visual Dialogue 2 can be seen from Friday 3rd to Sunday 5th October 2008. The exhibition includes established artists Henry Shelton, Alan Stewart and Rodney Bailey together with local artists Paul Beharry, Jonathan Evens, Doreen Gullett, Peggy Hull, Bob, Dennis & Liz Keenan, Brian Richards and Audrey Shorer. Also exhibited will be the Redbridge Advent Art installation, an abstract tryptich on mirrored perspex which will be displayed in six Redbridge churches during Advent.
Henry Shelton has had a successful career as a designer and fine artist. He has received design commissions for clients such as the Science Museum, Borough Councils, private and corporate bodies and has works in Churches such as the Church of the Saviour, Chell Heath, St Andrew Holborn and All Saints Goodmayes. Henry will exhibit several of his most recent semi-abstract works and a Stations of the Cross that was exhibited in 2007 at York Minster. He says that his most recent paintings have all come to him in prayer as he has been meditating on particular Bible passages. Most of his work now comes through a meditational process.
Alan Stewart is a Church of England minister and a fine artist. He has exhibited previously at London Bible College, London Institute of Contemporary Christianity, and Intermission at St Saviours. In 2005 his painting Early one morning was dedicated by the Bishop of Barking for the Youth Chapel of St Margaret's Barking. His most recent project, Hertford stns: A stations of the cross for Hertford, was the subject of a feature article in the Church Times. Alan will be exhibiting four charcoal Stations from a Stations of the Cross which is a work in progress. Each Station within this series will feature a cruciform design.
Rodney Bailey studied Design and Public Art at Chelsea College. His work is concerned with identity, communication, and having a visual dialogue with nature. He uses a variety of styles to execute his work and draws on his family background and childhood memories for ideas as well as his Buddhist practice for inspiration and guidance. Last year Rodney exhibited in Eye Play at the Bankside Gallery and the inaugural Visual Dialogue exhibition at St John's Seven Kings. Rodneyt is exhibiting two images inspired by British Museum's First Emperor exhibition and two photographs from a set which formed his very first exhibition held in the Commonwealth Institute.
Darkness and light both feature in the Redbridge Advent Art Installation which may recall works by Mark Rothko in its sombre colours and rectangular voids. In this installation abstract colour has been applied to mirrored perspex, clouding our ability to see clearly in the mirrored panels of the installation. Yet in the darkness of the abstract design, we can still see reflected the candles, lit within the space where the artwork stands, and picked out on the panels, forming a star, are also lines of clear reflection.
During the opening night reception on Friday 3rd October, Henry Shelton and Rodney Bailey will speak publicly about their work in conversation with Jonathan Evens.
As part of preparations for the Advent Art Installation, an art workshop (providing an opportunity to spend some time thinking about abstract art and developing your creative side as much of the day will be spent in creating your own piece of art on a religious theme) will be held during the exhibition on Saturday 4th October, 11.00am - 3.00pm. The cost is £10 (including artistic materials for you to explore this God-given side to humanity) and people can come along on the day to take part. All are welcome.
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