A Serious House on Serious Earth: The poetry of our churches
The Manger Gallery
13th April – 20th June 2026
This exhibition brings together work by some of our region’s most imaginative and distinctive artists with some of our greatest poets writing about some of our greatest buildings – our churches. Poets include T S Eliot, R S Thomas, Nick Cave, Philip Larkin, Sally Read and John Betjeman; with paintings and drawings, hand lettering and copper etchings, stitched textiles and ceramics, stained glass and printmaking, all evoking the age, architecture, atmosphere and art of these most poetic buildings. Work by R N Clarke, Peter Clayton, Michael Cook, Elizabeth Forrest, Michelle Holmes, Sarah Kirby, Duncan Pass, Richard Pearson, Rhiannon Powell, Karen Wicks and Russell Wilson