by Michelle Rumney | Apr 10, 2020 | Collaborations, In Action, Inspiring, Supporters
Today is Good Friday and tomorrow we should be dismantling the Lent Art Installation at Southwark Cathedral ready for the celebrations on Easter Sunday. The lockdown for Covid-19 has meant that this pilgrimage, like many others has been challenging, but in ways we...
by Michelle Rumney | Mar 1, 2020 | Architecture, On Show, Selected, Spaces
This year’s Lent art installation at Southwark Cathedral has a Pilgrimage theme for Thomas Becket’s 850th anniversary year. The Route With the help of author Leigh Hatts and his guidebook ‘The Pilgrim’s Way’, I traced the London to...
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 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...
