A Cathedral Tentacular

This series of drawings by Sarah Gittins is the result of a commission from A+E, the art and ecology programme at St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral. They look through a regenerative lens at the Cathedral grounds, buildings and community asking the following questions:

• How can this place support multispecies flourishing?

• How can the Cathedral respond to the triple crises of climate change, species loss and wider environmental collapse?

• In what small but significant ways can the Cathedral be a beacon through difficult times to address contemporary environmental and social injustices?

Some of the images show ways that the Cathedral community have already undertaken action to support human and more-than-human flourishing and some images envision additional forms of mitigation and adaptation in response to the climate and ecological crisis.

Sarah Gittins is a visual artist working across a variety of media, with a particular focus on drawing and printmaking. Her work explores issues…