by Michelle Rumney | Mar 18, 2020
These 12 handmade candles, as in medieval times, are the same height as the people they represent. In the 12th century, after measuring a person from head to toe with a piece of string – ‘Measuring to the Saint’ – using the string as the wick, monks...
by Michelle Rumney | Mar 14, 2020
Finding each other again in the Paradise of free souls Lent Art Installation 2020 at Southwark Cathedral Part of Becket 2020 850 years ago Thomas Becket gave his last sermon at Southwark Cathedral, then set off on his horse back to Canterbury. The route he took later...
by Michelle Rumney | Jul 24, 2018
St Thomas Way ‘Re-Making Maps of the Mind: Medieval & Modern Journeys’ This exhibition accompanies the launch of the new heritage trail on the Welsh-English borders, St Thomas Way. Artist Michelle Rumney has been visiting places along the St Thomas Way...
by Michelle Rumney | Mar 3, 2015
This series started simply with a suggestion to speed up my working processes. Grinding pigments, mixing them with oils and following a laborious layering process was beautiful in its own way, but took weeks to realise. Why not use something else as your...
