The Captive Figure: Ghislaine Howard's Stations of the Cross

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For almost as long as I can remember, the Stations of the Cross have been an essential part of my visual vocabulary. As a child they were the first images that revealed the problematic nature of human existence and the power of art as a means to express the inexpressible. As I grew older, I came into contact with more emotionally charged versions of Christ's Passion than the ones familiar to me from school and my local church. Especially significant to me were those single episodes such as Rubens's great Deposition and Titian's resonant image of the Entombment. It became my ambition to continue that tradition, by putting some of the emotive power of such images into a suite Of works …