Saturday 26th October, 11am, £12.  SOLD OUT

On Saturday 26th October, artist Laurence Edwards’ will be giving a tour of ‘Borrowed Breath’, his critically acclaimed exhibition at Winchester Cathedral. The series of sculptures, drawings and prints on show in the North Transept at Winchester are the result of more than a decade of work, much of which was directly inspired by the art, architecture and history of the cathedral.

Leaves and quincunx (the geometric pattern of four-sided shapes with a solitary figure in their centre) feature heavily in the experimental work within the exhibition. Pointing towards a relationship with the building and the artefacts of Winchester Cathedral, these works, created through processes of manipulating the sculpture during the wax stage of the bronze casting process – a territory Edwards has made uniquely his own – speak to the notion of light as matter, entering and exiting the physical presence of the figure as a volume. They evoke the extraordinary windows of the gothic cathedral, a sense of ephemerality and a kind of visual translucency of the present, the past and the forthcoming.

Edwards comments, “I was blown away by the great West window of Winchester Cathedral which itself had been blown away by Oliver Cromwell, only for the fragments of glass to be collected and reassembled by the people of the city, the resulting assemblage of fragments and light seemed a great metaphor for the exhibition I’m about to have in the Cathedral. With my bronze figures dissolving and coalescing in cycles through this spectacular building, I try to trace attempts that have been made at making sense of our place in the world through the lens of this magnificent space.”

The tour will last approx. 1 hour. Places are limited and must be booked in advance. Tickets are £12 and all the money goes towards the upkeep of the cathedral. Bring a copy of your ticket either printed or digital to the cathedral welcome desk on the day.