Hereford Cathedral School

Icons in Transformation & work of Ludmila Pawlowska – Cathedral Exhibition in

March 2009

Year 8 pupils visited the recent exhibition of icons of the Scandinavian artist Ludmila Pawlowska in Hereford Cathedral. Later they made their own icons inspired by the fusion of ideas within Ludmila’s icons which draw upon the Russian Orthodox tradition but also include found objects, such as bullets and shell cases, staples and wire, rocks and minerals, scribbled text and handwriting. Many of her icons are crowded by myriads of minature Byzantine figures. Samples of Year 8 work are on display in school in Room K and in the cabinet outside the School Library. These icons are also fusions of ideas relating personal experiences of friendship, loss and sorrow as well as highlighting concerns about child soldiers, foot and mouth, poverty and greed.