While in Liverpool, we looked up the Anglican cathedral at the top of Saint James Mount, in the centre of the city.
It was built between 1904 and 1978 to designs by architect Giles Gilbert Scott (1880-1960), who also created the UK's famous red telephone boxes in 1935. With a surface area of 9,687m2, it is the largest religious building in the United Kingdom and the 8th largest church in the world. Until 3 September, it will be home to "Identity: we are all together", the 3rd work by Peter Walker to be installed within its walls. Here, the artist explores the concept of identity and the way in which we are all linked.
Seven 25m-high columns are suspended, illuminated by beams of light representing the double helix of DNA, referring both to the uniqueness of each of us and to our common origin.The DNA helices wrapped around the columns are composed of the portraits of over 3,000 people who took part in the photo booth organised during Peter Walker's previous exhibition in the cathedral, "Being Human", in 2022. The columns change colour, symbolising the differences - physical, behavioural, cultural - that define each of us individually. The colours change, but always in harmony, reminding us of our common links and origins. Standing at the foot of this fascinating work, you never tire of looking up and watching the ballet of lights that animates the columns between the walls of the cathedral.
For more information on this work and its creator, follow this link to the website of artist and sculptor Peter Walker https://peterwalkersculptor.com/?page_id=2927
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