Holding Shards 2026

Synopsis

Holding Shards is a performance to camera video work. It was filmed in a burnt, regrowing woodland in Kent; a desecrated church in Swansea; and a stream in the Gower Peninsula. The work builds on a live performance made in the village of Walsingham, Norfolk (Messenger’s Lament) which examined that place’s history of image-breaking and the pilgrimage of childless believers. The protagonist of both works is a smashed stained-glass saint, who laments unanswered prayer.