Posted Friday 14 December 2012
Event organiser Professor Frank Millward said the students had been fired up by the opportunity to showcase their artwork in the centre of their alma mater's hometown. "It's a YouTube world today. Every minute, hours of film footage are uploaded online and, as artists, we have an opportunity more than ever to use art to remind us of where it is we have come from and where it is that we may be going," he said. "Art tells stories about our past and offers possibilities for the future. If what we see excites us, then we pass that story on, and that's what we're hoping to capture with this installation."
A church has stood on the grounds of the current All Saints Church for more than 1,000 years. It is the place where the original Coronation Stone is thought to have been kept in the Saxon Chapel of St Mary. It is also widely believed to be the site of the crowning of at least two Anglo-Saxon kings, and possibly as many as seven, during the 10th Century, including Athelstan, the first king of a unified England in 925, and Ethelred the Unready in 978-9. Nothing remains above ground of the original Saxon church except for outlines marked by stones outside the south door of the present building.
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