Nicholas Pope, Temperance, 2015

Nicholas Pope’s fascination with belief systems has led to an enormous installation at The Sunday Painter, along with counterpart works on paper, titled The Conundrum of the Chalices of the Seven Deadly Sins and Seven Virtues. The work consists of fourteen absurdist glass vessels, which seem more akin to alien, abstract jellies than the traditional goblets found in places of worship. Pope worked with expert glassmaker James Maskrey to create this new piece, and the exhibition presents the direct relation between Pope’s mark-making, and the translation into a medium that is solid, yet strangely fluid and inherently translucent.