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Friday 20 July 2018

Graham Sutherland: Attracted to the Cross

My latest review for Church Times is of the Graham Sutherland show 'Beneath the Tapestry' in Coventry Cathedral:

'This exhibition is small but significant, as it brings together important works by the artist which are unlikely to be seen together again in my lifetime.

Sutherland’s religious works may be few, but they are not only supremely realised conceptions of key moments in salvation history, but icons of the renaissance in the Church’s artistic patronage which, across Europe, also engaged George Bell, Jacques Maritain, Maurice Denis, and the Dominicans Marie-Alain Couturier and Pie Raymond Régamy. In Britain, it led to the conception of the new Coventry Cathedral as a “treasure-box” of significant commissions. But Sutherland’s wider creative imagination was stimulated, too: his Thorn Trees and Thorn Heads, a new strand in his work, derived from his reflections on the crown of thorns. Vibrant Thorn Trees lithographs can be seen in the complementary exhibition of Sutherland prints organised by the Goldmark Gallery in the Chapel of Christ the Servant.'

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Candi Staton - His Hands.

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