by Michelle Rumney | Dec 21, 2021
7 Paths to the Sea 7 vertical strip maps, each 3m tall, hang from ceiling to floor in a shop window marked ’31’, filling the entire shop frontage with a web of hand-drawn pencil lines depicting local roads and footpaths. On each of the 7 strips, a single...
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 | Mar 20, 2019
The Map of Mundi Exhibition Late in 2018, I was invited to bring the St Thomas Way touring exhibition away from the Welsh heritage trail and much closer to home – to Lighthouse Poole’s Centre for the Arts. This would be the first time that this work had...
by Michelle Rumney | Oct 16, 2018
EXHIBITION: Re-Making Maps of the Mind: Medieval and Modern Journeys in St Illtud’s Church, Llantwit Major, Glamorgan Heritage Coast Tuesday 16th October 2018 – Wednesday 9th January 2019 “Measuring to the Saint” St Thomas Way is a modern pilgrimage trail...
by Michelle Rumney | Jul 7, 2018
Re-Making Maps of the Mind Exhibition Saturday 7th July – Tuesday 14th August 2018 Medieval and Modern Journeys In making this artwork for St Thomas Way, artist-in-residence Michelle Rumney has been exploring the medieval practice of ‘Measuring to the Saint’. In...
by Michelle Rumney | Nov 10, 2017
Arts by the Sea Festival Bournemouth, Dorset 14 -21 October 2017 Test for Plastic-Pathways-ArtsByTheSea-2017-195805sandcastle bucket Plastic Pathways Beach labyrinth on the sand for Arts by the Sea festival by artist Michelle Rumneyplastic bottle and sandcastle of...
by Michelle Rumney | Sep 1, 2017
Labyrinthine Pairs In the summer of 2017, I teamed up with fellow Taunton artist-in-residence, Christopher Jelley, and we created two huge grass labyrinths – one 20m and the other 10m – the largest labyrinths I’ve worked on to date. In fact, the 20m...
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...
