South Shields Museum & Art Gallery introduces a new exhibition called Inspired By The Lindisfarne Gospels.
The exhibition has been created by a group of talented amateur calligraphers, who are part of two groups who meet weekly at Mortimer Community Centre in South Shields. The groups were given the opportunity to attend the Lindisfarne Gospels exhibition at the Laing Art Gallery in September last year, and then spent several weeks creating individual responses to the exhibition, based on the question: What do you take as Gospel?
The Lindisfarne Gospels, the most spectacular surviving manuscript from Anglo-Saxon England, were written on Holy Island, Northumberland in the early 8th century and are now part of the collection at the British Library. The exhibition at South Shields Museum features calligraphy, illuminated lettering, Celtic knotwork, handmade books, photographs and draft pieces, to demonstrate some of the features of the Lindisfarne Gospels. The groups worked with two guest artists, Yvette Ja and Carrie Dennison, who taught them traditional bookbinding and Celtic knotwork.
