Events
Rupert Loydell Exhibition at Truro Cathedral
8:00am to 6:00pm, 3 March 2009 to 8 April 2009 - Every day
Truro Cathedral
3 March - 8 April 2009
Rupert Loydell, Senior Lecturer in English with Creative Writing at UCF, is
showing his abstract Stations of the Cross paintings at Truro Cathedral
throughout Lent 2009.
He was awarded a Commissions Fund grant by Arts
Council South West to paint the series back in 2000; the paintings were also
one of a hundred Year of the Artist projects across the south west of
England. Since then the Stations series has been shown in galleries,
churches and cathedrals around Britain and in the USA.
Rupert's
fourteen images are small oil paintings on canvas, each 8 x 10 inch canvas
containing two distinct parts. "The two halves play with ongoing themes in my
art of conversation and dialogue; I have worked with these ideas for many
years now, often wishing to keep a painting unresolved, so that the viewer's
eye keeps moving around the painting, seeing and looking anew, rather than
coming to rest on a focus. In this series, the strip between the halves plays
with the idea of separation - of Christ from God, of mankind from God,
of people from each other, of the crowd from the figure carrying
the
cross."
This series of intimate paintings are on exhibition in
the retro-choir of the cathedral and are part of Truro
Cathedral's year-long focus on the visual arts, which includes
various exhibitions, talks and activites.
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