Interactive mixed-media textile installation
Canvas and velvet stretched screens, digitally printed cotton, CAD embroidery, communion wafers, screen-printed organza, laser-etched priest shirt and bible, laser-cut screen, lamb skull, crucifixes, bible-wrapped and stitched secret confessions. Now archived at Brooklyn Museum's feminist art artabase
220cm x 120cm
My thanks go to the following for entrusting me with their confessions and for agreeing to have these sealed and exhibited within my Benedict XVI Confession Chamber. To have been entrusted with the secrets and innermost thoughts of such an outstanding body of people has been a very humbling experience and has made this project the most precious I have ever embarked upon. Only a few confessors have respectfully asked to remain anonymous, whilst the rest are acknowledged and named here:- Anon (internationally acclaimed artist, British/female) Anon (national newspaper arts journalist and critic) Anon (previous Turner prize nominee, female) Alexis Hunter Alicia Ross Allyson Mitchell Amelia Gregory Ana Finel Honigman Angela Kingston Annie Sprinkle Bethany Murray Bob & Roberta Smith Bracha Ettinger Carolyn Weltman Catherine Opie Charles Moffat Cherie Federico Chila Burman Clare Price Del la Grace Volcano Frances Spalding Gareth Longstaff Gillian Nicol Hayden Kays Henry Porter Hilary Hazard Jaclyn Santos Jeff Bienvenido Pena Jennie Bringaker Jenny Edbrooke Jess Larson Jess McCabe Jim Fitzpatrick Julie Verhoeven Kate Gilmore Kate Marshall Khaled Hafez Kristin Aune Langlands & Bell Laura Hamilton Melanie Manchot Miriam Elia Nancy Davidson Paul Kindersley Peggy Ahwesh Phil Sayers Ruth Gledhill Sara Rahbar Sarah Lederman Sarah Maple Steven Music Sue Prichard Susannah Rodee Susie Vickery Terry Sanderson The Guerrilla Girls Tigz Rice Tim Woodward Ximena Garrido-Lecca
