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Global Stations, 2021

Deventer, 2020

Amsterdam, 2019

New York City, 2018

Washington D.C, 2017

London 2016

Praise

The Rt Revd Paul-Gordon Chandler, Bishop of The Episcopal Diocese of Wyoming & Founding President of CARAVAN

Stations of the Cross is a wonderfully curated collection of art by outstanding contemporary artists that harnesses the transformational and provocative power of art, leading us on a spiritual pilgrimage toward compassion, understanding and respect for all. I encourage everyone to take this virtual artistic journey, pause at each station, and discover solace, hope and faith.

The Rt Revd Dr David Hamid, Anglican Suffragan Bishop in Europe

During Lent, a traditional Christian devotion is the Stations of the Cross, when we become our Lord’s companions on his last journey which led to his death on Calvary. The Christ we accompany is the one we encounter in our neighbor, particularly in the poor, the marginalized, and the victims of injustice and oppression. As St Matthew’s Gospel reminds us “Whatever you did for the least of these, you did for me”.

The Revd Dr Catriona Laing and Dr Aaron Rosen present to us a modern-day Stations of the Cross, using art and meditations to highlight contemporary issues of social justice. I commend this most warmly to the faithful of the diocese. In walking and praying these Stations, we walk with Jesus who is among those whose lives are a Via Dolorosa, of sweat, blood and tears. Lord, help us to follow you.

The Revd Canon Ben Quash, Professor of Christianity and the Arts and Director, Centre for Arts & the Sacred at King's College London

Stations is a series of highly innovative but almost uncategorizable events. It takes an ancient Christian practice and makes exhibition-goers and pilgrims into fellow travelers. This is a transformative achievement:  it shows, among other things, that the re-contextualization of a work of ‘sacred art’ in a museum collection need not always involve lending it back to a church, or creating an ersatz religious milieu for its display. Contexts are not only physical spaces; they are also human uses. The very same work can be gazed at by a tourist spending a morning enjoying art for art’s sake, and a devotee en route with Christ to Golgotha.

The ‘para-liturgical’ format of the Stations makes the allegedly distinct categories of devotional and public—and the gallery and sanctuary—permeable to one another.  Stations mediates not only very different spaces, and very different types of art, but also very different types of people. It persuades me that any place hospitable to visual experience is in principle capable of fostering a move to meaningful vision in which the corporeal sight of the eyes opens a pathway to the types of sight that Augustine once identified as “spiritual.”

His Eminence Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Catholic Archbishop of Westminster

For many centuries, the Passion of Jesus has inspired artists to some of their most outstanding work. I warmly welcome this innovative ‘Stations of the Cross’ project, bringing together Catholic, Anglican, and Methodist churches, as well as museums and public spaces around London, to enrich with new artistic endeavor our meditation on the redemptive suffering and death of Jesus Christ. The narrative of the Passion, embodied through these 14 impressive works of art, provides a powerful encouragement to think about not only the suffering of Jesus in this Lenten season, but the suffering of innocent people around the world. I pray that this exhibition will be a great success and wish to thank most sincerely the curators, artists, and institutions who have made it happen.

Anikó Ouweneel on the 2020 Stations of the Cross. Image details here.