Breathe at Salisbury Cathedral
Dryden Goodwin’s artwork Breathe was installed at Salisbury Cathedral as part of the exhibition Our Earth (20 April — 6 October 2024).
Two new presentations of Breathe included a projection of the animation, suspended in the interior of the 800 year Gothic cathedral. Three large-scale banners on the Cloister walls, close to the cathedral’s main entrance, featured three drawings (of over 1,300 made by Goodwin to date), each scaled-up to over 5 metres.
The exhibition, titled ‘Our Earth: Art, Faith and the Climate Crisis‘, coincided with World Earth Day (22 April) and focused on the impact of climate change, considering how our lives will be increasingly affected and how this will be felt differently across the world.
Also included in the exhibition were works by Hilary Jack, Rebecca Chesney, Derek Jarman and Elias Sime. The video below shows the projection of ‘Breathe’ in the cathedral, made during Choral Evensong, with the sounds of the cathedral’s choir and organ.
With thanks to curator Beth Hughes and the team at Salisbury Cathedral, also to Fergus O’Connor.
Dryden Goodwin’s ongoing project ‘Breathe‘ is produced by Invisible Dust.
About Breathe
Breathe is a multi-site public artwork by Dryden Goodwin, produced by Invisible Dust, to raise public awareness and drive public and political support for clean air action.
The work, which features clean air activists ‘fighting for breath’ has taken over hundreds of bridges, buildings and billboards next to traffic-choked streets across London, the UK and Lahore, Pakistan, and has been viewed by over 14 million people to date.
As Breathe tours to new cities, it connects a diverse and growing network of clean air activists, a worldwide ‘collective’ of individuals who each endeavour, with urgency and resistance, to bring about local transformation. Their actions contribute incrementally to confronting the global air pollution emergency and the need for radical and lasting change.
We continue to pursue opportunities to tour and grow the work to more cities in the coming years. Get in touch if you are interested in collaborating: lucy@invisibledust.com and be sure to join the Invisible Dust mailing list.