Stamping Uncertainty: An Installation Project for the Chapter House. Canterbury Cathedral - Hardcover

Newling, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0954730003 ISBN 13: 9780954730000

Publisher: SWPA Limited, 2004

Synopsis

About the Book
This book is both a document of the installation and a critical evaluation of a place. In this instance the place is the Chapter house at Canterbury Cathedral. Stamping Uncertainty was commissioned by Canterbury Council as a temporary installation for Canterbury Cathedral. The work continued the artist’s research into Faith and Place. As a material work it sought to bring knowledge of the sites context engendering debate around notions of Uncertainty as a principle of belief.

The book fully illustrates the construction of this major installation installation which explores the nature of doubt and the struggle for faith expressed in the Church’s hymn book.

“…Stamping onto paper is normally seen as an expression of bureaucratic certainty, an absolute truth, thus, by subverting their use; Newling has succinctly created a metaphor for two thousand years of spiritual exploration. Walking through this immense field of lecterns will be to experience a physical, as well as emotional and spiritual sensation of walking through uncertainty…”

A hardback, cloth bound book with beautiful uncoated papers and illustrated section.136 pages.

About the Author
John Newling was born in Birmingham in 1952 and has an acclaimed international reputation creating projects and installing works in the UK and many other countries.

Nottingham-based, John Newling is a pioneer of public art with a social purpose. His works explore the natural world and the social and economic systems of society – such as money or religion. To this end Newling has innovated the possibilities and benefits for art in a renewed social and conceptual framework.

Newlings recent projects include major exhibitions specific projects in the UK, USA and Europe.

About this title

Synopsis

This site specific installation explores how questions challenge certainty. The artwork gathers questions from hymns which are rubber stamped and displayed on lecterns exhibited in Canterbury Cathedral's Chapter House.

Edition details

• Publisher: SWPA Limited
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0954730003
• ISBN 13: 9780954730000
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 136
• Editor: Newling Ann