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Published in Figurative art today: Dennis Creffield, John Epstein, Lindsay Davidson, exhibition catalogue, 7 Dials gallery, 1982
RESPONDING TO THE ECCLESIASTICAL CHARACTER of the architecture of the Earlham Street Gallery, I decided to use the occasion of this exhibition to make a retrospective selection from all my work which has an overtly religious subject matter or mood.
The exhibition covers a period of thirty years. Most of the early works have a specifically christian reference. But the most recent works, though collectively titled 'Ecce Homo', are also a meditation of that especial note of masculine sadness which I hear in Philip II's soliloquy in Act III of Verdi's Don Carlos, seen in the photographs of Nijinsky as Petrushka and identify with Browning's lame boy who cannot follow the Piper and his friends into the mountain.