Another peice in York St Mary's:
'In 2009, mosaicist Emma Biggs and her art critic and artist husband Matthew Collings created Five Sisters, inspired by the famous window of the same name in York Minster.
This huge 13th century window is made up of 100,000 pieces of glass and Biggs used 10,000 pieces of broken medieval pottery from York Museums Trust's collection to make the mosaic on the floor of St Mary's.'
http://www.yorkstmarys.org.uk/Page/ViewInstallation.aspx?CollectionId=8
Check out the culture show report on the piece:http://www.bbc.co.uk/cultureshow/videos/2009/08/s6_e5_mosaic_web/index.shtml
Love when they're talking about it being the mosaic for the regular people apposed to the traditional idea of mosaics being to worship god of for kings, this one is made from broken pottery used by the regular people in their day to day life. Find the idea which Biggs mentions being able to put her thumb in the thumb place of a medieval potter, doing exactly what someone did hundreds of years ago. Love this idea of old thumb prints, ghosts of previous things in the same way i like the way the paintings on the walls of the South London Gallery will become ghosts, and how our show Off The Latch was full of ghosts of the previous shops, evidence of previous paintwork, hooks and holes in walls which all tell an unknown story.
Am intrigued to find out what else has happened in York St Mary's, and also chuffed I found a bbc site where I cn watch purely the fine art sections of the culture show!
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