The Blind Jesus (No-one belongs here more than you) is an image in charcoal of the Last Supper by Revd Alan Stewart, which includes the central character of a visually impaired Jesus, surrounded by twelve people of differing ages, backgrounds and abilities. At the table, an empty chair invites the viewer to find themselves at the table.
The Blind Jesus (No-one belongs here more than you) has been commissioned by Celia Webster, Co-Founder of Wave (We’re All Valued Equally), as part of a project in which it seeds other images of the Last Supper that are truly for everyone. Schools, churches and community groups are being invited as part of this project to create their own images of welcome and belonging.
The exhibition includes additional images of welcome and belonging created by: WAVE (We are All Valued Equally); St Mary's Catholic Primary School in Muswell Hill; St Paul's CE Primary School in Barnet and Wickford Church of England School. The exhibition at St Paul's sees an additional piece - 'Me, Myself and I - God's Children' - by St Paul's Primary School N11 join the exhibition.
Photographs of the WAVE Church Last Supper were taken by Maria de Fatima Campos.
Pupils in year 1 and 2 at St Paul’s CofE School in Friern Barnet created their work with their amazing art teacher, Dimple Sthalekar. The work shows how we begin as roots and then grow. The leaves of the tree are multi-coloured and moveable to show how we can move into different spaces and communities. St Paul's is a hugely welcoming and inclusive school that welcomes children from all backgrounds and faiths and uses the medium of art to convey this.
St Mary's Catholic Primary School focused their piece on the empty chair included in Alan Stewart’s drawing. Pupils in Years 4 and 5 created ‘Take a Seat,’ a piece which uses the technique of mono-printing to create lots of empty chairs as an invitation for everyone to sit down and join the table. They began the project by talking about the empty chair and what it could mean. They also compared and contrasted it with the commissioned drawing to talk about difference and what forms that can take. Through the process, the children decided that the peace dove would make a good representation of god. The words around the dove invite us to take a seat, to unite us in love and community.
Alice Lucas, art teacher at Wickford Church of England School, helped everyone there make a special picture based on a rainbow and including images of pupils and staff to show that they all belong at the school.
The exhibition can be seen at St Paul's on Friday 28th, Saturday 29th, Sunday 30th April, and Thursday 4th May (see flyer above for times).
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Glen Hansard - Grace Beneath The Pines.
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