The work below was shown in a solo exhibition at St. Giles church in the Barbican, London. |
'Afghan' Painted ceramic, cotton 18 x 20 x 64cm On the morning of 13th November 2001 Kabul was liberated from five years of Taleban rule, said to have been possibly the harshest regime in the world. The Northern Alliance announced that women in Afghanistan can now go back to work, and girls can go to school - activities that were previously banned and in Kabul women tore off veils and berqa's that they were forced to wear by the ruling militia. |
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'Harry' Painted ceramic, velvet, polyester 16 x 18 x 75cm Some libraries and schools have banned J.K. Rowling's fantastical books about the orphan Harry Potter, written using classical methods of children's story telling, as they could be misconstrued. For example, Dixie State College Library, Utah banned it from the bookshelves for the books depictions of "magic, sorcery, wizardry, witchcraft, Satanism, occult, and sheer evil". |
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'Jedi' Painted ceramic, cotton 22 x 20 x 68cm Shortly before the census last April, an e-mail was circulated in the UK stating that if 10,000 people put Jedi on their census form, it would become a "fully recognised and legal religion". Sufficient numbers of people wrote the entry in for it to be allocated its own code and will therefore be included in historical archive material for future generations to view |
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'prot' Painted ceramic 9 x 13 x 65cm 'Religions are difficult for a K-PAXian to understand. Either all of them are right or none of them is.' |
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'Alan' Painted ceramic, cotton 10 x 13 x 66cm Is football the new religion? In 1998 the UK's biggest sculpture - Anthony Gormleys 'Angel of the North', was installed to national and international acclaim and criticism. On May 12th 1998 a group of Newcastle United supporters paid tribute to their hero by draping a 29 x 17ft replica of Alan Shearer's shirt over the sculpture. |