Today is day to listen to the story of women. In the
#Catholic tradition it is known as the Feast of the Visitation celebrating the
account from Luke's Gospel of the meeting of Mary and Elizabeth.
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| Visitation by Jacob Epstein |
On this day I invite #brisbane friends who may be in the city to visit the wonderful Visitation sculpture in the lower garden of the Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art at Southbank.
"In 1926 in Epping Forest I modelled a life-size figure
which I intended for a group to be called “The Visitation”. I can recall with
pleasure how this figure looked in my little hut which I used as a studio. I
should have liked it to stand amongst trees on a knoll overlooking Monk Wood.
This figure stands with folded hands, and expresses a humility so profound as
to shame the beholder who comes to my sculpture expecting rhetoric or splendour
of gesture.... When I exhibited the work at the Leicester Galleries, wishing to
avoid controversy, I called it “A Study”. By this disguise I succeeded for once
in evading the critics, always ready to bay and snap at a work. A subscription
was raised to purchase it, and I recall that Richard Wyndham gave the proceeds
of an exhibition he was holding of his own work towards its purchase for the
Tate Gallery."
— Epstein
Reading Luke 1:39–56 Ecologically
Elaine Wainwright
/ Dec 1, 2016
Through a close reading of Luke 1:39-56 ELAINE WAINWRIGHT
draws attention to the ecological context of the meeting of the pregnant women,
Mary and Elizabeth.
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