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exhibition ART AT THE
CHURCH
“A dialogue”
Thursday October 28th to Thursday November 11th 2010
ST.LUKE’S CHURCH, CHELSEA.
The reverend Dr.Brian Leathard invited me to exhibit in the
church after seeing my work at the Chelsea Arts Club.
We decided to suspend the
paintings down either side of the main isle.
The string we used to suspend
the paintings was painted black.
The spotlights some 25ft up
were positioned to shine down onto the paintings.
When the lighting was turned
down behind the paintings they seemed to float as if
suspended by divine intervention.
The
blues and orange were luminous in this setting.
We
hung the painting Go.d beer at an angle to break up the
regularity.
The
photographer Andre Camara had worked with me to get shots
of some of the most dramatic scenes for me to paint and was
showing some of his work,I also used this area as a studio
over the two weeks of the exhibition.
St. Luke’s
church has an interesting history Charles Dickens was
married there in 1836, there is however has no art
dedicated to the patron saint,in the two week period of the
exhibition I became resident artist and painted a modern
portrait, St.Luke was a physician scholar and was meant to
have painted the first depiction of the virgin Mary.
Opening
night,the music was Mozart’s requiem which had been
recorded live at the church,the paintings looked stunning
suspended in the magnificence of the church about 200
people passed through it was a great night.
“These works, striking and challenging, compel us to focus
on that interface between faith and life by setting
uncompromising visions before us. Richard Bagguley has the
remarkable ability to speak with authority into this
question of incarnation”
Revd Dr Brian Leathard