by Michelle Rumney | Mar 11, 2020 | Architecture, Inspiring, On Show, Selected, Spaces
Friday 6th March 2020 6-9pm Lent Art Installation at Southwark Cathedral Imagine a vast medieval space at night, lit by just the glow of its many candles. Against the soft shadows, the individual pool of light cast by each candle is slightly spectacular. A work of art...
by Michelle Rumney | Jan 29, 2020 | In Action, Studio & Process, Supporters
How to do that measuring to the saint thing yourself! The Hanged Man Story So, as you may know, I’ve done a lot of measuring with string, ribbons and thread over the past few years… It started with St Thomas Way and the story of the Hanged Man, and that...
by Michelle Rumney | Jan 25, 2020 | Studio & Process
In the Year of Pilgrimage Southwark Cathedral reflects on the mediaeval practice of ‘Measuring to the Saint’ – Lent Art Installation 2020’ In mediaeval times, there was a common practice called ‘Measuring to the Saint’. If you needed spiritual or physical...
by Michelle Rumney | Nov 3, 2019 | Collaborations, In Action, On Show, Play, Selected, Talks & Workshops
On Saturday 23 November I’ll be running Medieval Mapping & Measuring workshops at the Nuffield Southampton Theatre from 10:30am – 4:30pm in Southampton. This is part of the Human Worlds Festival, run by the University of Southampton in the Cultural...
by Michelle Rumney | Nov 1, 2019 | Collaborations, In Action, On Show, Play, Supporters, Talks & Workshops
Measuring to the Saint In Medieval times, there was a common practice called Measuring to the Saint. If you needed spiritual or physical help or healing, they measured your body from head to toe with a length of string or thread, curled it up and sent it to the...
