Three of my four ‘Evilution panels that returned from Ground Zero New York earlier this year, ‘Coventry’, ‘Dresden’ and ‘Hiroshima’, and now renamed the ‘Reconciliation Triptych’, are to be exhibited in St Mary’s Church Penzance. The exhibition ‘Hope in Darkness’ will also include the large ‘ Angel’ sculpture by Tim Shaw RA and works by a number of well known artists. The exhibition will be open daily from 10.30 to 4.00 from the 2nd to the 17th November.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, The Most Reverend Justin Welby will be visiting St Mary’s on Saturday 16th. November during his visit to the Diocese.
I will be giving a talk at St Mary’s about the panels and the Evilution Project on Armistice Day, Monday November 11 at 1.15.
The three panels which make up this triptych, were formerly part of a five panel installation called ‘Where Their Footsteps Left No Trace’. They were memorials to the millions of innocent men, women and child who became victims of conflict, many because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time or from the wrong country or race. The original five panels, Coventry, Dresden, Hiroshima, Auschwitz and 9/11, each represented places synonymous with our ability to make extraordinary advances in science and technology only to turn those advances into the means of killing people. A phenomenon I have called ‘Evilution’ and the name of an ongoing project which is likely to occupy me for the forseeable future
The original installation was exhibited at Falmouth Art Gallery, Truro Cathedral, St Ives Parish Church, Coventry Cathedral and St Peter’s Church, Ground Zero ,New York.
The 9/11 panel is now in the permanent collection of the National September 11 Memorial Museum at the World Trade Centre, New York and this triptych is soon to become part of the permanent collection at Coventry Cathedral. I hope to announce the future of the Holocaust ( formerly Auschwitz ) panel in the near future.
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| The Panels at Coventry Cathedral 2010 |
