Southwark Cathedral Lenten Art Installations

This year during Lent Southwark Cathedral will host two art installations one by Edmund de Waal entitled ‘another hour’ and the other by artist Angela Wright is called ’40 days’ , who both live and work within the Diocese.

Edmund de Waal’s piece, consists of twelve free-standing vitrines, each nearly 7ft high and holding a single white porcelain vessel. They will stand in a serpentine line in the retrochoir at the east end of the Cathedral. He says that the work is his “…attempt to make you pause, to stand still and listen in this vast building, to contemplate the changing light and shadow of the space and to reflect on a thousand years of liturgy.”

Angela Wright’s piece is entitled ’40 days’ and is very different – it is made from spun wool and will be suspended below the East window of the Cathedral, a drop of some 50 ft, covering the altar screen. Angela says that she hopes that “Visitors will look up at its mass and the spillage of its myriad wavy strands tumbling down to the stone floor, its colour, smell and softness will engage with the senses”.