Acts of Worship uses the medium of photography to explore aspects of Christian faith with regards to three particular areas; surfaces, scriptures and people.

Christianity enjoys a long tradition in fine art with significant contributions from some of the world's greatest artists who have portrayed Christian events or traditions through commissions or personal reflection.  Photography, with its reliance on scientific developments in the early modern age, could be seen as sitting uncomfortably beside Christian faith which, by its very nature, is resistant to scientific experiment.

Yet for both Christianity and photography, light holds a special and significant meaning.  Christians refer to Jesus Christ as the 'light of the world' and the phrase 'having seen the light', though having originated to describe a religious conversion, has now found its place in a secular world as a catch all for some kind of conversion, religious or otherwise.  And of course, without the presence of light the medium of photography would have a very limited appeal.

Acts of Worship exploits the tension between photography and Christianity and seeks to capture the spirituality of place, subject matter and people involved in religious worship; Surfaces explores what spiritually is left in a religious space once worship has finished, highlighting the tension between spiritual worship and religious culture, Scriptures explores the connection between light and the books in which the word of God is recorded, and People explores how belief is represented in portraiture.

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