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All Saints Church, Earls Barton in the Wellingborough Deanery recently hosted Halo, a public art installation by Swiss Danish artist Tobias Zehntner in partnership with Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, an educational art charity based in Northamptonshire.
Originally commissioned in the Abbaye de la Cambre, Belgium, Halo featured a suspended light structure that created a moving interplay of light and shadow, illuminating the church's architecture and forming halos above the audience.
'This installation feels like the perfect expression of that sacred in-between," said The Revd Jenny Bland. "The light that is interconnected with church, evoking candles, halos, mystery, divinity. A space where we might glimpse or experience something greater than ourselves.'
The project was funded by Northamptonshire Community Foundation’s Compton Fund and was the event in Fermynwoods Contemporary Art’s thematic programme Love + Light, which uses art to explore themes of climate awareness and collective reflection.
Spirituality is an impulse to connect, to express, and to belong to something greater. Art becomes one of its purest expressions - not because it provides answers, but because it gives us space to dwell in mystery” said James Stevington,Director of Fermynwoods.
This was a wonderful opportunity to invite the wider community to visit the church and think about the issues of climate as well as faith.