10 May 2011Last updated at 12:38

In pictures: Salisbury Cathedral sculpture exhibition

Exhibition by Sean Henry at Salisbury Cathedral

The biggest exhibition of multicoloured sculpture in nearly 400 years and the largest to date by the figurative sculptor Sean Henry has been announced at Salisbury Cathedral.

More than 20 sculptures ranging dramatically in scale and paying homage to the "anonymous and unknown" are to be positioned throughout the cathedral in both "expected and unexpected places".

The exhibition, which opens in late July, includes many of the sculptures the innovative artist has created over the past 12 years along with new works which will be shown for the first time at the 13th Century church.

"By placing my figures on existing empty plinths and platforms and in areas where other, older sculptures would once have stood I'm interested in memorialising the everyday," said the sculptor.

"And it is my hope that the figures will provoke a degree of self-contemplation in the viewer, temporarily lifting them from the sphere of daily life into a different place."

Conflux: A Union of the Sacred and the Anonymous is due to run at Salisbury Cathedral for three months from Friday, 22 July.

Wiltshire

In pictures: Salisbury Cathedral sculpture exhibition

Share this page

Related Stories

Services

About BBC News