Religious spaces present opportunities for art to be appreciated in innovative ways. Meryl Doney explains.
It is Easter 2004. For a week, Antony Gormleys figure Rise has been lying, facing east, in the central chapel of Canterbury Cathedral, the ancient place of pilgrimage to the shrine of Thomas Becket. A blue-green, flickering light has been playing over the churchs central crossing. As midnight approaches, the congregation of some 2,000 people witness the culmination of this... more