Cathedral Building - 'A Spire'
From 11th – 17th January 2010
- set within Carlisle Cathedral will be a temporary installation created by artist Caroline Dalton
‘A Spire’ was first commissioned as part of the BIGHT Festival in November 2009 created to mark the submission for Carlisle as UK City of Culture 2013.
The piece itself focuses towards the idea of building blocks in rhetoric or the exaggerated architectural model; seemingly indicating a certain concept of future, proposal, or newness, but equally it emulates the real world surrounding in present terms whilst also acknowledging and echoing the past by its duplication of the Cathedral architecture in close proximity.
A spire was specifically created to be sited here within the city's cathedral; for by definition Cathedral denotes seat of control or governance historically, one functioning at the very centre of community affairs: and by this token such a location marks the common understanding of what may constitute ‘city’-
‘A Spire’ salutes the notion of city from past, present to future in being.
The Cathedral is open daily 7.30am to 6.15pm hours Monday to Saturday and 7.30am to 5.00pm hours on Sunday.
***Caroline acknowledges thanks to the following in relation to setting up this Project:
Carlisle Rennaissance & Love Carlisle, University of Cumbria, Carlisle Arts Festival & Freerange Artists.
Contact: carolinedalton1@hotmail.com
