serendpitous sacrality

 

 

This exhibition is a visual sociological study of ethnographic encounters with sacred spaces in England’s North. It seeks to reveal hidden, forgotten or overlooked ways in which we interact with the spiritual world, as well as spiritual things and places that we take for granted in everyday life.

The spiritual world is a reified world made physical and visible through acts of spiritual imagination. These might involve both rituals and material embellishment – decoration, architecture, and the general aestheticization of a space to evoke a sense of spirituality.

Over the past two years, the artist has photographed over 80 instances where places and/or things have taken on a spiritual character, or exhibit expressions of “sacredness”, yet at the same time are less obvious to the casual observer. The photographs are meant to challenge what and where we think of as spiritual or sacred, as well as how the everyday and the sacred can blend in spontaneous moments.

 

Eventbrite Links - All events are free

 

Opening and Roundtable Event 10 June 2025 / 5 pm

 

Artist Talk 12 June 2025 / 1230 pm

 

Artist Talk 14 June 2025 / 1230 pm

 

 

 

 

This project is supported by the British Academy (BA) Mid-Career Fellowship. More information about the fellowship can be found here

 

A press release about this project can be found here