“…When Christians visited the Holy Land they would follow Christ’s itinerary from Maundy Thursday to Holy Saturday, visiting the Holy sites, walking the Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) and praying at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, built on the place where Christ was buried. Those who could not make the journey could nonetheless share the pilgrimage experience and live through Christ’s final hours empathetically in the Stations of the Cross, a medieval devotion which comprises fourteen images representing the different events of the Passion, from the sentencing of Christ to his burial, before which prayers and petitions are made…”
Gabriele Finaldi, from ‘The Image of Christ’ (the National Gallery, 2000)THE STATIONS OF THE CROSS will be an exhibition at St. Edmund's Church in Roundhay, featuring the work of fourteen Leeds-based artists, each of whom have been invited to create work in response to a moment in Christ's journey to the cross.
On this blog we'll be hoping to post regular updates about how plans for the show are progressing, information about the contributing artists, and possibly some previews of the work being created for the exhibition...
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