Flesh Grass Fresh Glass

Gary Winters and Claire Hind

Exhibition 12th – 19th April Shandy Hall Exhibition Space

On the south wall in the chancel of the Church of St Michael, Coxwold, is the memorial tomb of Thomas, 1st Viscount Fauconberg, and his wife Barbara Cholmeley erected in 1618. The couple are carved in stone shown kneeling in silent prayer. Below them is an inscription that commemorates Thomas’ love to Barbara ‘Omnis homo bulla, omnis caro faenum’ which translates to ‘Every man is a bubble all flesh is grass’.

Our exhibition at Shandy Hall takes this phrase as inspiration for a creative writing project and we have written and produced a series of neon lights and photographed them in wild locations across the North York Moors.

The exhibition researches and celebrates the imagined, the magical, the serendipitous and the ephemeral.