Wed 18 Feb
|St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral
Exhibition: 'Golgotha Too'
Inspired by the canon of contemporary crucifixion paintings within British Cathedrals, Martin Fowler brings his exhibition to St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral.
Time & Location
18 Feb 2026, 08:00 – 29 Mar 2026, 17:30
St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Palmerston Pl, Edinburgh EH12 5AW, UK
About
‘It was quiet. What had the sentry to cry, but that it was the ninth hour and that all was not well? The darkness began to lift, but it was not the mind was illumined’ R. S. Thomas
Exhibition
Previously exhibited in Lancaster and Carlisle, and inspired by the canon of contemporary crucifixion paintings within British Cathedrals - Craigie Aitchison’s Crucifixion (1994) in Hereford or Graham Sutherland’s altarpiece in Coventry - Fowler’s modest oil paintings on wood continue the tradition of figurative painting within the church, whilst drawing parallels between the death of Jesus of Nazareth and the symptoms of a society shaped by the alienatory effect of neoliberalism.
As such, Fowler’s powerful redux crucifixions offer a deliteralised and atheist Presbyterian interpretation of the Resurrection story in which the Galilean holy-man, an eternal and timely symbol of forgiveness, suffers in an impoverished world of violence and sadism whilst, from beyond the edge…