‘Faith in the Miraculous’, 2022
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The large-scale ceramic mural (5 x 15m) is installed on the new Arts & Humanities building at The University of Warwick. Commissioned by curator Sarah Shalgosky in 2018, the artwork champions the coming together of people, references the architecture of Coventry Cathedral and celebrates the historical skills of the area.
The colours were selected after engaging members of the public from neighbouring Canley and then wider Warwickshire, hearing about their relationship to colour and place.
The tiles were made at the NBK Terracotta factory in Germany where I worked on the factory floor to make an intervention to the industrial process and adapt the extruded tiles. I returned to apply the areas of mixed glaze – an impossible to control, one-chance process.
The piece is free to view to the public, staff, and students.
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I think it is a work that is very rich in content. I like its play between city and campus, past and future, a reach back to the modernist vision. It is a point of enquiry and people can ask why…
Sarah Shalgosky
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Thanks to: Sarah Shalgosky, David Harris, Penny Roberts, Elizabeth Dooley, Will Law, Klaus Bayer, Knut Müller, Alexis de Raphelis, Marine Duroselle, Ben Hayday, Mike Tooby, Gerald Mak and Julia Rowntree. The University of Warwick, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios and NBK Terracotta.
