JACQUILINE CRESWELL

“For more than a decade I have had the immense privilege to be engaged as a visual arts advisor, curating and project managing exhibitions and installations at Salisbury Cathedral and other exceptional and challenging public spaces. In my role I see clearly how visual art can transcend the limitations of language, it has the ability to reveal to us new ways of seeing, feeling and thinking. Implementing contemporary technology and both traditional and multi media communication channels, I delight in creating interactive experiences that have the power to attract, engage and encourage diverse communities, working with artists of international eminence as well as younger emerging artists.”

Jacquiline Creswell
Visual Arts Advisor and Curator

Visual Art…

Art as communication

Visual art is one of humankind's greatest expressions of civilisation and remains a powerful and dynamic form of communication. Art allows us to challenge ourselves to seek truth in our surroundings, question our perceptions, and examine the way we live. In its creation and presentation works of art set in exciting contexts can elicit wonder and enlighten us. Visual arts have the power to open our minds to hidden meaning and deeper purpose. When communicating across beliefs and diverse communities art may speak where words fail.

The marriage of art and space

Churches have employed the visual arts for centuries, to celebrate their faith and communicate its truth and beauty, this can also be a medium for discussing and exploring that faith by providing a catalyst for including others into the discussion. The art programmes have demonstrated the extraordinary benefits that accrue to places of worship to their congregations and wider communities. Churches have found that art has the power to attract and engage people who are otherwise outside the formal structures of faith, belief and belonging.