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The Small House - Art Installation by Richard Woods

Southwark Cathedral has commissioned a major art installation, entitled The Small House, by the artist Richard Woods. Richard’s work appears across the UK and at various sites globally.

“The Small House is a simplified facsimile of a normal terraced house. It is a 2D cartoon depiction of a terraced house, the architecture of everyday. Standing at 7.5 metres tall and positioned directly in front of the magnificent Great Screen of Southwark Cathedral, The Small House aims to spark up a conversation with the transcendental architecture of the Cathedral. I see it as a meeting of the architecture of the everyday and the grandeur of the Gothic architecture that is something beyond the everyday,” said Richard.

The Dean of Southwark, the Very Revd Andrew Nunn, said, “Ask a child to draw a house and they will probably draw something that is similar to the house that all of us have drawn. Our images of a house are iconic. But whilst we will draw such a house few of us live as comfortably, with a smoking chimney, a picket fence, outside space and roses round the door. ‘The Small House’ invites us to think about our concept and fantasy of house and home and to ask the serious questions about why so many live in sub-standard housing or on the street. Richard Woods’ ‘The Small House’ sits in the big house, the house of God, iconic in its own right – the abiding with us God, who opens the door of the divine house and invites us in to find a home.”

Opening times are 9am – 5pm daily and The Small House is on display from Saturday 6 August through to Wednesday 31 August. Admission is free.

Summer at Bankside Gallery has original artworks by contemporary painters and printmakers of the Royal Watercolour Society and Royal Society of Painter Printmakers. Check out Anne Marlow with Two by Two and Arks and Rainbows, Raphael Appignanesi with Babel (with Thunderword from Finnegans Wake, and Peter S. Smith with St Bride's from Bankside.

Also check out Zi Ling, who is among the Winners | Award Winning Artists 2020-2022 at Mall Galleries with her HRH Princess Margaret, In the Middle of Pink is the Burning Silence.

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Ricky Ross - Bethlehem's Gate.