Participating Artists
Amanda Thesiger
Amanda Thesiger’s paintings respond intuitively to the church’s own particular atmosphere - picking up shapes and structures which then develop through the process of painting.
Kathryn Faulkner
Kathryn Faulkner’s photographic
work is a reflection on a secular
spiritual practice, a meditation
group that meets every Sunday in a
studio in east London. The artist has
also made a photographic diptych
of text found in St Mary’s.
Mark Cowper
Mark Cowper’s spherical sculpture, representing the local circle of life, incorporates small amounts of materials gathered around Allhallows in Hoo peninsula.
Sara Wicks
Sarah Wicks’ sequence of paper ‘books’ of various dimensions, from human height to hand size, suggest trees and woods while
creating a strange landscape within the interior space.
Ian Bottle
Ian Bottle’s paintings incorporate a wide range of references drawn from architecture and religious and functional objects to children’s drawings, connecting his personal experience of the church and the landscape.
John Dargan
‘Light as material object’ - The flatness of the Hoo peninsula, the reduction of the landscape to Earth and Air is dramatic. John Dargan’s paintings relate to this simple division of pictorial space.
Kerrie Nimmo
Kerrie Nimmo’s work explores the historical layers of places that have been inhabited in one way or another for centuries - by sea or by man - only to be abandoned and then reclaimed.
Sue Dray
In the past, many families in the parish of Cooling lost their children to diseases related to marshland dwelling. Sue Dray’s work acts as homage to these children, celebrating their lives and acknowledging their existence.
Tim Meacham
Tim Meacham explores the relationship between church buildings and trees/forests. The influence of nature, particularly the forest canopy in medieval church architecture is echoed in the placing of a group of silver birch trees in the aisle of Cooling church.
Andy Malone
Andy Malone’s installation incorporates 190 bird shapes cut out of a map of Kent. His work presents a personal record of the artist’s history and travels in the region linking location, memory and image.
Rebecca Waterworth
Rebecca Waterworth’s installation is about contrivance, forcing the viewer to try and impose order on a considered chaos. Her work explores objects with specific duties or expectations and how this is communicated or realised making connections between the work ethic of ‘the artist’ and the nature of a religious lifestyle.