MAJOR NEW EXHIBITION OF SACRED AND SECULAR SCULPTURE BY PETER EUGENE BALL

A major exhibition of almost 40 previously unseen religious and secular sculptures by Peter Eugene Ball opened today in Salisbury Cathedral. Ball is the most well represented living artist in the UK’s Cathedrals and churches but this is the first time his work has been on public view in Salisbury. The exhibition features a number of reflective images, several witty conversation pieces and most importantly a new Madonna and Child, which forms its focus. Canon Treasurer, Mark Bonney, is delighted that the Cathedral is hosting such celebrated religious art. “Peter Eugene Ball has a special gift for creating devotional objects and a wonderful ability to make his sculpture blend into its new surroundings, as these have already in Salisbury Cathedral’s Morning Chapel. His work is instantly recognisable with its textured surfaces, expressive faces and elongated figures. His pieces assume a timeless and sacred quality and the statements he makes deal with experiences and mysteries like birth and death, the human condition and the divine. “The figures can be very simple, little more than a slender piece of sea-worn timber transformed by a gesturing hand or poignant facial expression; other works are much more complex and richly embellished with beaten metals. But each is a unique creation drawn from the found objects which are his inspiration, from the various cultures which have strongly influenced him and from his innate passion to express his profound, often quirky, and uncompromising ideas. It is a deeply moving experience to see so many pieces of his extraordinary work in one place.” The Exhibition runs from 12 September to 11 October and can be seen Monday to Saturday 10.00am – 4.00pm and Sundays 1.00pm – 2.30pm in the Morning Chapel in Salisbury Cathedral. Admission free. All the sculptures in the exhibition are for sale.

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