Installation view, Correspondences, Frestonian Gallery (2021) Courtesy of Frestonian Gallery
Paul de Monchaux and Tess Jaray first met as students at the Slade School of Art in the 1950s. Their friendship was then rekindled in 1986 when they both took part in the Stoke-on-Trent Garden Festival where de Monchaux showed sculpture in the Whitechapel Gallery Garden and Jaray presented her first brick floor piece. As each went on to pursue their separate careers they remained in contact, exchanging ideas, thoughts and influences and discussing common interests while also each exploring their very own very particular relationship with abstraction.
Over the ensuing years they also went on to make important public projects including Jaray’s floor for the concourse of Victoria Station, her forecourt for the British Embassy in Moscow and the Wakefield Cathedral precinct and De Monchaux’s war memorial in Norwich, stone sculpture complex in Birmingham’s Oozells Squa
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How a pair of peregrines put Wakefield Cathedral on the map
Viewers from around the world have been tuning in to follow the fortunes of the spire s feathered residents and their daily dramas
4 April 2021 • 5:00am
Left to right: Colin Book, Rev Simon Cowling and Francis Hickenbottom have seen the peregrines gain a global following
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It has all the ingredients of a British global entertainment hit. A love story about a couple struggling to raise their family against the odds and set within the stately surroundings of a grand 19th century pile – in this case Wakefield Cathedral, which boasts the tallest spire in Yorkshire.
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Wakefield Households to Receive Christmas Cards from Church Leaders
Friday, December 18th, 2020
A UK church is surprising the local community, by sending out 65,000 Christmas Cards to households across the city of Wakefield.
Wakefield Bishop Tony Robinson led the initiative, seeking to lift spirits after a difficult and tumultuous year.
Premier News reports, the cards are part of a larger multi-channel communication designed to help those in the city who would value some encouragement.
Two digital vans will display a giant animated version of the card and will be on a “patrol of encouragement” for over a week.
The initiative also includes lighting up Wakefield Cathedral red and green for 15 days.