Musical instruments have evolved over many hundreds of years, their shapes and forms developed from natural materials through a transfer of skills from luthier to luthier. The project Dovetailing is a creative response to this evolution. The rhythms, harmonies and timbres of music echo back to the natural world, and it feels as if instruments… Read More »Dovetailing Art Installation at Farfield
The churches of F X Velarde are caskets of craft. Working with a selection of skilled tradesmen and artists including Herbert Tyson Smith and David John he had a simple and effective formula; a muscular brick box, a semi-detached campanile, angels for mullions, colourful ceilings, gold mosaic crosses, bas relief carved fonts and geometric gilt… Read More »The Churches of F X Velarde- Speaker Dominic Wilkinson
Prior to the war, Catholics were fined and prosecuted with sequestration, a penal law which forfeited the personal and real estates of landholding Catholics for recusancy, which could only be returned after the individual paid a compounding fine based on the value of the estates. The outbreak of the English Revolution in 1642 created significant… Read More »Catholics during the English Revolution, 1642-1660: A Reassessment of Politics, Sequestration and Loyalty: Dr Eilish Gregory
