PUBLIC ART - 2001 FARLEIGH HUNGERFORD CASTLE

Artist in Residence at Farleigh Hungerford Castle, Bath, as part of English Heritage Year of the Artist.

Farleigh Frescoes - click to enlarge

Carey established a temporary studio at Farleigh Hungerford Castle in order to make new work in response to the site, it's history and the unique medieval wall paintings of the castle's Chapel of St Leonard
 She developed a series of four large fresco paintings which were temporarily on display at the chapel of St Leonard. These paintings imagine the emotional and spiritual lives of women in Pre-Reformation England, "Life before the end of visions, pagan idolatry and the destruction of the holy relics." The imagery in the fresco paintings is inspired by the fragments of stories that survive about some of the individual women who have lived at Farleigh Hungerford.

After Joanna - click to enlarge Vermilllion II - click to enlarge

During the residency Carey held talks and work shops for local artists, students and school children.