Flawed
Date: 7 - 8 May 2011
Time: 12.00 noon - 16.00
Venue: The Leper Chapel, Newmarket Road, Cambridge
The Leper Chapel in Cambridge provided an exceptional setting to experience this unusual exhibition by MA Printmaking student Susan Mealing, and also an appropriate one, as the themes explored by Susan's work were 'the flawed and rejected'. The Chapel has historically provided shelter and sanctuary for the outcasts of society as long ago as the 12th century.
Susan's work is concerned with imperfection and transience. For this exhibition, she used weeds and dying/decaying plants taken from the grounds surrounding the Chapel, transforming them into a series of beautiful prints and sculptures. This use of plants is also representative of traditional 17th century flower paintings and still life, in which flowers symbolised human fragility and the briefness of our lives on earth. The Chapel holds great significance to this theme and also enhances the spiritual nature of the work.
Time: 12.00 noon - 16.00
Venue: The Leper Chapel, Newmarket Road, Cambridge
The Leper Chapel in Cambridge provided an exceptional setting to experience this unusual exhibition by MA Printmaking student Susan Mealing, and also an appropriate one, as the themes explored by Susan's work were 'the flawed and rejected'. The Chapel has historically provided shelter and sanctuary for the outcasts of society as long ago as the 12th century.
Susan's work is concerned with imperfection and transience. For this exhibition, she used weeds and dying/decaying plants taken from the grounds surrounding the Chapel, transforming them into a series of beautiful prints and sculptures. This use of plants is also representative of traditional 17th century flower paintings and still life, in which flowers symbolised human fragility and the briefness of our lives on earth. The Chapel holds great significance to this theme and also enhances the spiritual nature of the work.
The Chapel is located at Barnwell Junction on the Newmarket Road (opposite Cambridge United Football Ground). There is plenty of parking on adjacent side roads, but unfortunately there is no access for wheelchairs.
For further information please email Susan Mealing or call her on 07944 716564.
This exhibition is held with kind permission of Cambridge Past, Present & Future, the local charity who own and care for the the Leper Chapel.
Please click images to enlarge.
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