During Lent and Easter 2012 the great space of York Minster’s nave will enriched by the showing of two major bodies of work by Ghislaine Howard.

The fourteen monumental monochrome paintings that form the time honoured sequence The Stations of the Cross, (created in association with Amnesty International and first shown at Liverpool Cathedral in 2000) are shown juxtaposed with 365 small painted panels which form part of Ghislaine’s ongoing 365 Series.

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During Lent and Easter 2012 the great space of York Minster’s nave will enriched by the showing of two major bodies of work by Ghislaine Howard.

The fourteen monumental monochrome paintings that form the time honoured sequence The Stations of the Cross, (created in association with Amnesty International and first shown at Liverpool Cathedral in 2000) are shown juxtaposed with 365 small painted panels which form part of Ghislaine’s ongoing 365 Series.

The Dean of York, the very Reverend Keith Jones, has written of the Stations of the Cross sequence

‘In the great spaces of York Minster these powerful works are remarkably at home and the final, new canvas of The Empty Tomb, which you have to search out in the crypt, is a revelation. This is not so much an exhibition as a devotion.’

Talking about the 365 Series Ghislaine has said:

‘I’ve been making these paintings every day since October 2006. Each one measures 6 x 8 inches and results from a daily meditation on one news image usually from The Guardian newspaper. I have often done this in an irregular fashion, but after being involved in a minor way with the events in London of 7/7 I have regularised this practise.

The choice of images reflects the preponderance of images of warfare, crime and suffering that we find on a daily basis in our newspaper of choice: the choosing of the images is entirely intuitive: not every one relates to images of tragedy. Each is dated on the reverse, but other than that, no further reference is made to the wider context of which they are a part.’

In 2008 Ghislaine was named as a ‘Woman of the Year’ for her contribution to art and society; the 365 series was first shown at Imperial War Museum North 2009.

Ghislaine Howard was named as a Woman of the Year 2008 for her contribution to art and society. Her works chart and interpret shared human experience.

Also on view in the crypt is Ghislaine’s monumental painting, The Empty Tomb.

The exhibition runs from 23rd February until 15 April, 2012

You can follow the progress of the 365 Series on ghislainehoward.blogspot.com