10 days - Winchester

Giants of Albion

Simon Ryder makes drawings and installations. In an age when science allows observation down to the nano and as far back as the Big Bang, ‘Giants of Albion’ explores our perceptions of chalk as material and as part of our national identity in a building, founded on an extreme expression of scale and time.

With thanks to Dr Nick Thorpe, Dept. of Archaeology Winchester University for his support.

Giants of Albion © Simon Ryder, SPUD Observatory Artist, 2015

After So Much Time

Isabella Martin works with writing, performance and sculpture. ‘After So Much Time’, a series of flags, traces a journey back into the underwater past of the chalk of the South Downs to bring the geological into contact with the cultural, exploring how language can bridge gaps between then and now.

Finding Sea © Isabella Martin

William Walker the Diver who Saved a Cathedral

Children’s book author and illustrator, and former art director, Tony Kenyon’s lithographic prints, of William Walker, are part of a series of works entitled ‘Winchester Legends’ using different graphic art techniques. Kenyon was intrigued by Walker’s legendary feat and the strange, subterranean and submerged world under the Cathedral.

William Walker the Diver who Saved a Cathedral (detail) © Tony Kenyon

Walking on Water

Local painter Caroline Hall’s mixed media installation brings Winchester’s famous chalk stream into the cathedral. Flowing in, under and around the cathedral, the Itchen has played a vital role in the cathedral’s history. A floor projection encourages visitors to literally walk across water - inviting obvious biblical comparisons.

Laid to Rest

AWARD WINNING PROJECT

Sedimentation serves as a metaphor for the accumulation of thought, and the blurring of boundaries as the conscious merges with the unconscious. Applied artist Campbell and fine artist Willmott’s work considers how this idea might be re-presented materially by using a white linen pillow,impressed with hair and filled with chalk.

Laid to Rest © Vanda Campbell and Irena Willmott

Fabric

Sculptor James Briggs’ response to CHALK is a 3D printed quarry machine, an interest in the compound make up of chalk and in the similarity between the processes of 3D printing and the making of a chalk stick. The model’s fragility reflects the Cathedral: the resin a metaphor for the River Itchen.

Sum of Parts

Lucy Ash is an abstract painter with a background in film animation. Her latest piece for Winchester Cathedral is a triptych that examines the three components of chalk: carbon, oxygen and calcium. Within the frames the viewer will experience both the separation and combination of these fundamental elements

Carbon (detail) © Lucy Ash