Encounters
Delightful exhibition at St Martin-in-the-Fields of portraits of religious world leaders by Nicola Green. Green had been given access to a series of meetings between religious leaders around the world which are seen as new era of inter-religion relations creating a dialogue of friendship and an exploration of the differences between religions. There were two sets of work in this show. The Encounter series was a set of head and shoulder portraits of the leaders presented as faceless figures against a patterned backdrop representing symbols of their faith. The bodies were photographs with the faces painted out collaged onto the wonderful intricate backgrounds. These 30 pictures where displayed in three lines with a lack of hierarchy. I loved the backgrounds and would love to see them used for textiles for clothing! The Lights Series were a set of life sized figures of 12 of the leader with screen printed faces but the clothes painted onto the back of the Perspex figures....