- Venue
- Ceri Hand Gallery
- Starts
- Friday, August 15, 2008
- Ends
- Thursday, September 11, 2008
- Address
- Ceri Hand Gallery 12 Cotton Street Liverpool L3 7DY United Kingdom Tel: 0044 (0) 151 207 0899
- Location
Doug Jones’ first solo show at Ceri Hand Gallery adopts a Monty Pythonesque approach to investigating all things spiritual.As a former chorister of Lichfield Cathedral, Jones grew up amidst Anglican clergy, resplendent in elaborate garments, painstakingly stitched by some of the best tailors in the land.As a child from a long family line of Freemasons, Jones has always been fascinated by the secret aprons his father kept in a box in the study, and the books which detailed the ceremonies the Masons performed behind closed doors.Titled after his old school motto, Jones’ exhibition introduces the remarkable lives and philosophies of The Brotherhood of Saints (BHS), established in 1573 by Zadok Nathan Solomon Jones (following the infamous Battle of the Green Flower).Intensely secretive, with complex regulations and ideologies, Jones playfully reveals the BHS’ Bosch-like practices, exhibited through their intricately embroidered robes, mitres, stolls and banners from their daily rituals.
