Articles

Drawn together

Deep calls to deep All your waves and billows have gone over me. Psalm 42 The first thing I noticed were the shining eyes. My wife Jill and I had just entered a shipping container which had been converted into a sewing school for Syrian refugees camped in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon. It was […]

Domestic Violence Against Women: an artist’s response

Catch us the foxes, the little foxes, that ruin the vineyards. (Song of Songs 2:15) I hate a man covering his wife with violence as with a garment, says the Lord, the God of Israel. (Malachi 2:16) White linen at midnight my mother wrapped in it as inaccessible as the light thrown down from stars. […]

ARTIST’S TALK – PAS DE DEUX

Pas de deux (a dance for two).

This body of work explores the conversation that occurs between us and a work of art. What happens when we truly engage in the presence of art. When we become vulnerable and in some sense inhabit it?

Zadok 118 Autumn 2013 – Ian McGilvray

‘Could you tell me the name of this country?’ ‘Don’t you know?’ said the man. ‘It is Niggle’s Country. It is Niggle’s Picture, or most of it; a little of it is now Parish’s Garden.’ ‘Niggle’s Picture!’ said Parish in astonishment. ‘Did you think of all this, Niggle? I never knew you were so clever. […]