It's been a while since I've posted a blog, but award winning photography is always worth talking about!
'Visual Communion: the art, architecture and craft of the Eucharist' will be published in the spring of 2024 using one of my award winning images to illustrate an essay on Tracey Emin's piece 'For You' at Liverpool Cathedral.
This work, in pink neon, reads 'I felt you and I knew you loved me'. It is situated above the west doors of the cathedral. My image will be used to illustrate an essay by Deborah Lewer, called 'Gothic Shadows, Little Lights and Big Neon: Rethinking the Contemporary altarpieces'
The shoot was commissioned by White Cube, London. The images were nominated for and won several awards for Tracey Emin, one of these being the ACE Award for Art in a Religious Context 2009. Nominated by Tim Marlow, Director of Exhibitions, White Cube, London.
'Coloured glass, light and text have been the cornerstone of art in Christian worship for centuries and this work combines all three but as pink neon. The artists own feminine handwriting - a rare element of Christian iconography - reads 'I Felt You And I Knew You Loved Me'. Its material and the fact that it is not functional nor built into the fabric of the building might suggest that it is temporary... The permanence of the Liverpool commission is significant and indicates risk-taking with conviction on the part of he Cathedral. The material and the message are ambiguous - by which I mean they could exist with equal weight in a secular setting - but set above the red sandstone of the west door the work carries a very simple and direct message, intimate as well as contemplative.' Gill Hedley reporting for the ACE award for Art in a Religious Context.
Tracey Emin (b. 1963, British) lives and works in London and France having trained at Maidstone College of art and the Royal College of Art, London. Her work is frequently highly personal and confessional and ranges between traditional modes of craft production to painting, sculpture and installation.
Book title: Visual Communion: the art, architecture and craft of the Eucharist
Collected essays to be published by Brepols (Belgium)
Edited by Laura Moffatt and Christopher Irvine
Anticipated Publication: Spring/summer 2024
Image selected for publication
The piece viewed from the Dulverton Bridge
The three lancets of the Benedicite window soar above the piece