The Bible – Shieldfield Art Works

Mixing Bowl

Mixing Bowl: Responding to Creation // The Art of Andy Goldsworthy

31st January 2017 By Lorna Bryan

Image above: Andy Goldsworthy, Sycamore leaves edging the roots of a sycamore tree, Hampshire, 1 November 2013. January 31st saw the first Mixing Bowl of 2017 and the first with our decided format of gathering to eat together, experience and discuss a work of art, and pray together. Andii Bowsher showed us the work […]

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For all the people back on earth…

20th December 2014 By Shieldfield Art Works (SAW)

In 1968 the Apollo 8 mission went into lunar orbit and its crew witnessed earthrise on Christmas eve. The pictures they took were the first images of earth, to be seen by people from space. The very next day Bill Anders, Jim Lovell and Frank Borman made a live Christmas Broadcast from the craft, and […]

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What was the light in the sky?

20th December 2014 By Carol Davenport

by Dr Carol Davenport, Director of Think Physics, Northumbria University After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem and asked, ‘Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship […]

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The Stars and the Angels of Christmas

18th December 2014 By Dominic White

‘The Star of Shieldfield’ featured in the ‘Conjunction exhibition at the Holy Biscuit By Dominic White The Star of Bethlehem is one of the most powerful images of Christmas. Indeed, the stars have always fascinated and awed people. Why? The uncertainty of life makes us anxious. We can change much on the earth: flatten hills, […]

Commentary

Be Part of the Picture

3rd April 2013 By Amy Barnes

The schools programme is well underway at the Holy Biscuit, with a calendar packed full of workshops for schools in our local area. This year artist Lorna Bryan has devised a project inspired by the Lindisfarne Gospels, to coincide with their much anticipated return to the region to be exhibited this summer. The aim of […]

Commentary

Consider the Light

25th January 2012 By Shieldfield Art Works (SAW)

James Turrell from THE VIEWMAKERS’ STUDIO on Vimeo. Without light there would be darkness. Light allows the eye to see and the mind to perceive, color, value, texture and shape. James Turrell’s exploration of light as an end unto itself, causes the viewers of his work to consider its power, and to experience its spiritual […]

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Dancing in the Heavens

17th November 2011 By Shieldfield Art Works (SAW)

by Dominic White In the past twenty years, dance has enjoyed an incredible revival in Britain. New dance schools have sprung up everywhere, including state-of-the-art Dance City in Newcastle. Ballet has always been strong in Britain, even if rather highbrow (or considered just something for little girls), but now all kinds of dance and movement […]