SALVATION -
DAMNATION
by
Brian Whelan
The Window Gallery
University of the Arts, St. Martin's
107-109 Charing Cross Road, Soho, WC2
14-25 March 2008
24 hrs a day
Paintings by artist Brian Whelan:
Saints and Ladders, Salvation - Damnation
and others will be on display at
The Window Gallery
during 9 days of Lent, Palm Sunday,
St. Patrick's Day, Good Friday and Easter Sunday.
In Saints and Ladders, reference is made to St. Patrick's expulsion of the snakes, The Tree of Knowledge, Jacob's Ladder, and the popular board game, Snakes and Ladders.
With Salvation - Damnation, actors in two performances will turn the work of art into a board game in the gallery window at St. Martins' University of the Arts, as viewed from the pavement of Charing Cross Road.
Window Performances:
Friday: 7:00pm 14th March and
Saturday: 12:30pm 15th March
"A new door into the sacred." Bro. John Hegarty