Faith Art Prize | Exhibition in London (with Paul Hobbs)

We are proud to annouce that the piece ‘Stations’ (Paul Hobbs Art, an artist of our ARTS+ network) has been chosen as one of 100 exhibits in the Faith Art Prize... There were 3,500 entries from 83 countries! Congratulations.

If you are in London between Tuesday 10th to Friday 13th November please have a look.

These works will be on display at Westminster (RC) Cathedral Hall, Ambrosden Avenue, London SW1P 1QW (10am-5pm. Free Entry.)

Paul writes:

My conceptual piece is one of the most unusual. It is called ‘Stations’—a not so subtle reference to the stations of the cross. See simple explanation below.

As well as the main prize, there is a People’s Prize voted for by the public. This is a great marketing ploy to get us all to tell our friends and contacts. If you would like to vote for me or any other of the selected artists, please go to https://www.faithartprize.com/peoples-choice-award. The artists are listed alphabetically by first name, so you will find me two thirds of the way down.

Stations

The 16 panels are coloured like British road signs, with texts taken from the passion and resurrection account from St John’s Gospel chapters 19 and 20 from the New International Version of the Bible.

The colour codes are:

Red - warning

Red edges/white centre - military signs

Brown - cultural sites

Dark Green - primary routes

Blue - mandatory signs

White - waiting or loading

Yellow - attention

Black - heavy goods (vehicles)

Light Green - country lanes

In selecting sentences from the story and cutting them back to phrases of between four to seven words, the narrative becomes enigmatic and intriguing—prompting who, what, where, when, why questions from the viewer.


If you know the text, you can focus on particular moments of the story in new ways, stopping the narrative for a moment and ignoring what you know is coming after, to really meditate, turning the phrases inside out.

- If you would like a fuller copy of my notes referencing each phrase you can find this here -www.arthobbs.com/stations-info

- Also if you are interested to follow me on instagram my account is @paulhobbsart