Exhibition: Golgotha Too
Previously exhibited in Lancaster and Carlisle, Martin Fowler's modest oil paintings on wood continue the tradition of figurative painting within the church.
About Exhibition: Golgotha Too
Previously exhibited in Lancaster and Carlisle, and inspired by the canon of contemporary crucifixion paintings within British Cathedrals - Craigie Aitchison’s Crucifixion (1994) in Hereford or Graham Sutherland’s altarpiece in Coventry - Fowler’s modest oil paintings on wood continue the tradition of figurative painting within the church, whilst drawing parallels between the death of Jesus of Nazareth and the symptoms of a society shaped by the alienatory effect of neoliberalism.
As such, Fowler’s powerful redux crucifixions offer a deliteralised and atheist Presbyterian interpretation of the Resurrection story in which the Galilean holy-man, an eternal and timely symbol of forgiveness, suffers in an impoverished world of violence and sadism whilst, from beyond the edge of the picture, a wave breaks on a distant shore.
In the Resurrection Chapel of St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral.
Free, unticketed.
Closed during service times, and occasional other times; see www.cathedral.net for more details.
Martin Fowler is a painter based in Carlisle. He is currently employed as a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at the University of Cumbria. Prior to this, he spent six years as an Art Lecturer in the Scottish prison system working predominantly with life sentence prisoners.
He was born and raised in Portobello, and formative experiences of the North Sea and Old & Windsor Parish Church in Bellfield St. form an integral part of his work. He is a graduate of Glasgow School of Art and Winchester School of Art, and a member of the Society of Scottish Artists.
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