THANKS to funding from Arts Council England, artist Andrea McLean will take up residency in Yarpole’s bell tower for the nine days of h.Art to make paintings and drawings as a contemporary response to this historic building.
Andrea is a mapping artist and post-graduate of the Slade School of Art, London. She spent a scholarship year in Rome where she developed an interest in medieval spiritual works, and has just completed a Master’s dissertation on the Mappa Mundi as a ‘Well-Being Wheel’, and will be basing her Yarpole work on the bell wheel at the top of the tower.
“My painting aims to celebrate the presence of history in the current moment. I will be making a circular mapping painting in the beautiful bell tower and working from sketches made in the church and grounds,” says Andrea. “I look forward to a work evolving that will capture an essence of place and time.”
Visitors can find Andrea drawing in the grounds of the church, and painting in the bell tower, from Saturday until Sunday, September 14.
An exhibition of her work in the church will accompany the residency, open daily from 11am to 5pm.
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