The Journey – Deo Gloria

On March 5, 2015 By The Mulberry MouseIn Sewing

Welcome 🙂

Today I had a little trip out to Peterborough Cathedral to see a textile art exhibition called The Journey. It’s so rare to see any textile art being exhibited so as soon as I learnt about this one I was keen to go and see it. It was based on the Stations of the Cross, here are ‘hundreds’ of photos of it!!

20150305_130711 - Copy — The exhibition lighting didn’t photograph well but I hope you can still see enough to work out the textile techniques used to create these pieces.

20150305_130750 - Copy — Most of the panels had printed scenes on them which were sparingly embellished with embroidery – very effective I thought.

20150305_130915_1 - Copy — I liked the naive stitching on this piece and the stones held in place with thread.

20150305_131044_3 - Copy — I particularly liked the artist’s interpretation of sin being forgiven.

OK photo shoot over 😉

I thought the artist did a good job in her interpretation and it was very good to see textile art having such a high profile in the Cathedral. Great seeing all those quilting techniques used in different ways too 🙂 I think I may need to have a dabble in the textile art world myself now 😉

Until next time,

Chris x

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4 thoughts on “The Journey – Deo Gloria”

creativityandfamily

Chris, there is some beautiful work there. for me the one with the red word fading out as they are washed away is the most poignant. I love mixed media textile work. I haven’t done much myself but Abi does a lot for her art textiles. The great thing is you can raid the charity shops and markets for cheap clothes etc for fabric. xx

March 5, 2015 at 18:22 Reply
*Wisher*

Wow.. There’s really gaps of creativity there.. Thank you for sharing with us..

March 6, 2015 at 03:31 Reply
lin

Looks like a great exhibition Chris. Thank you for sharing it with us. xx

March 6, 2015 at 17:44 Reply
Esther Aliu

This was really inspiring, its so rare to see expressions of faith in such a personal way through the medium of modern style textiles, I would have loved to see this exhibition for myself. Thanks for sharing it with us, I’ve really enjoyed reflecting on it.

March 13, 2015 at 04:18 Reply