“The Chapel brings together a diverse collection of paintings, drawings, and sculptures by multidisciplinary artist Emily Hoyle. Rooted in classical style, yet markedly contemporary, Emily’s work challenges the notion that the history of Western culture is lost or irrelevant in today’s world.
The broad, but interrelated, disciplines of history, literature, music, psychology and theology provide essential inspiration for Emily’s work. Archetypal stories - those that are common across different times and cultures - particularly inform her practice. The viewer is invited to contemplate how enduring truths of the human experience (adventure, duty, love, mystery) unfold in their own lives.”
This online exhibition mirrors the physical exhibition at The North Wall Gallery, which took place between 8th-18th January.
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‘The Palio’ is deeply rooted in Sienese Catholic tradition: the race is held in honour of the Virgin Mary. Both horses and jockeys are blessed outside the Siena Cathedral before the race.
“There is no rose of such virtue
As is the rose that bare Jesu;
Alleluia.
For in this rose contained was
Heaven and earth in little space;
Res miranda.”
Translated extract from 15th entury carol ‘Ther is no rose of swych virtu’.
Little Lamb I'll tell thee:
He is called by thy name,
For he calls himself a Lamb:
He is meek and he is mild,
He became a little child:
I a child and thou a lamb,
We are called by his name:”
Extract from The Lamb, William Blake (1789)
“Videns Dominus flentes sorores Lazari ad monumentum,
lacrimatus est coram Judeis,
et clamabat: Lazare, veni foras:
et prodiit ligatus manibus et pedibus,
qui fuerat quatriduanus mortuus.”
“The Lord, seeing the sisters of Lazarus crying at the tomb,
wept in the presence of the Jews,
and he shouted: “Lazarus, come forth”.
And out he came, hands and feet bound,
he who had been dead for four days.”
Latin translation and summary of John 11, first published in 1535.
“Raised on the rural Warwickshire-Oxfordshire border, Emily’s early life immersed in nature left a strong impression on her art. Living and working alongside animals allowed her to witness first-hand the unfolding drama of the natural world. Animals are now a recurring symbol in Emily’s pieces, and she links her personal experiences with broader Biblical and mythological narratives.”
“Fifteen years studying and performing classical music developed Emily’s sensitivity to the unseen and the resonant. Time spent as a choral scholar at Wadham College first introduced her to the richness of Oxford’s sacred spaces, from which this exhibition drew its name. Like its namesake, The Chapel reflects Emily’s vision of a chapel as an enduring witness to the passage of time, and the various characters who may come in and out of its doors.”
