The Seven Works of Mercy<\/em>\u00a0is a subject that is at the basis of all of the world\u2019s major religions and should be the foundation for any civilised society – they represent values that are in danger of being lost in the modern world.<\/h3>\nThis project has two separate but connected aspects:<\/p>\n
1. Ghislaine is working as Artist in Association with Blackburn College and with the support of a number of other organisations including Blackburn Cathedral, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester Jewish Museum and Amnesty International, \u00a0to produce and organise an exhibition of a number of major canvases and related works centred on each of the \u2018Seven Works\u2019<\/p>\n
Feed the hungry<\/h4>\nVisit the sick<\/h4>\nGive drink to the thirsty<\/h4>\nClothe the naked<\/h4>\nShelter the homeless \/ welcome the stranger<\/h4>\nVisit the imprisoned \/ ransom the prisoner<\/h4>\nBury the dead<\/h4>\n
An integral part of the creation of the major works is Ghislaine\u2019s involvement with two performance artists, who are based in London, but operate internationally.<\/p>\n
2. These works will develop from her ongoing practice known as\u00a0The<\/em>\u00a0365 Series<\/em>. These are daily paintings developed from the news media, painted on 6 x 8 inch panels that she have painted every day since 2006*. These individual panels will be grouped into sets of seven that correspond with ideas associated with\u00a0The Seven Works of Mercy<\/em>. These will be distributed to different interested communities\/institutions. (Maybe seven works, seven venues, seven cities). These could include schools, youth or community centres, synagogues, mosques and churches. The works will remain with them for a specified time and be used as educational and meditative tools to encourage discussion and debate. At an appropriate time, each group will exchange their works with another group from another community – for example, a synagogue might be visited by representatives of a secular, Muslim or Buddhist community.<\/p>\n* 365 of these daily paintings were exhibited at Imperial War Museum North in 2009 and at York Minster together with her large monochrome sequence\u00a0Stations of the Cross \/ the Captive Figure<\/em>\u00a0this year. This juxtaposition between the timeless iconic stations and the contemporary photographs of news events has proved to be a very powerful and effective experience for those who have seen them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The\u00a0Seven Works of Mercy\u00a0project is continuing to gather force. The Seven Works of Mercy\u00a0is a subject that is at the basis of all of the world\u2019s major religions and should be the foundation for any civilised society – they represent values that are in danger of being lost in the modern world. This project has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghislainehoward.com\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghislainehoward.com\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghislainehoward.com\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghislainehoward.com\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghislainehoward.com\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=892"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ghislainehoward.com\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":919,"href":"https:\/\/ghislainehoward.com\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions\/919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghislainehoward.com\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghislainehoward.com\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghislainehoward.com\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}