| GHISLAINE HOWARD The Empty Tomb
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| GHISLAINE HOWARD The Empty Tomb
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 The Empty Tomb The Empty Tomb played a central role in the Cathedral's Easter celebrations and will remain on view until the end of 2008. Last Easter artist Ghislaine Howard spent a number of early mornings walking the city streets of Liverpool sketching and photographing the spaces vacated by rough sleepers. These empty doorways, tousled blankets and damp cardboard boxes the only evidence that someone had found shelter there. Her purpose was to situate her painting of The Empty Tomb in the reality of the lived experience and to bring to this spiritual subject a simple human dimension. The resulting painting, 4 x 8 feet, is set within a spectacular steel reliquary created by sculptor Brian Fell and is the culminating piece of her series Stations of the Cross: the Captive Figure. The Stations of The Cross: The Captive Figure was on view from February 11 to March 30, 2008. The series has toured various British cathedrals to great acclaim. When it was shown at Gloucester Cathedral, Her Majesty the Queen was presented with a study for The Women of Jerusalem for the Royal Collection. |
 Death's Broken Dominion (PDF) Laura Gascoigne on The Empty Tomb (The Tablet, March 22, 2008) |
| The images below are studies for
The Empty Tomb |
| The painting is the culmination of the Stations
of the Cross series which was made for the Cathedral in 2000 and has
been touring British cathedrals since, returning to Liverpool every two years. The inspiration for the composition is derived partly from drawings made of my late father's time in hospital, memories of Holbein’s Dead Christ and observations of city doorways where the blankets used by rough sleepers lie discarded. The figures that rested there are gone, their brief sojourn marked only by the fall of the blankets. |
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