Language of Faith, installation, vinyl floor stickers. Loughbrough Parish Church, 2008.

Church Tattoos was the resulting photogaphic work that came from an installation in the Loughborough Parish Church in mid-2008, alongside works by Matthew James Kay.

The Installation involved three contemporary and relatively challenging 'expressions of faith' (in the form of large vinyl copies of tattoos) being intergrated with the very fabric of the building of Loughboroughs historical church. The tattoos quoted bible verse or depicted Christian information that would have been familiar to people who use the church, but represented an alternative way of presenting it that was equally as meaningful (permanent even). The tatoos remained during normal services for two weeks, during which communion was held over the tattoo "King of Kings", which was a crucifix with graffitti text and a crown at a jaunty angle.

Selected local individuals were asked if they were able to relate to the images, and finally three of Loughboroughs diverse Christian community were selected to be photographed next to the one they could most closely relate to.

Selection from Church Tattoos, medium format photographic print. 2008.

This work has come about at an interesting time, in which the Church of England is seeing massive reform, division and risks becoming ever more isolated from everyday society. This work hopefully represents an optimistic view of Christianity being able to relate to and accept the world as it is. A female vicar, a tattoo artist, and a young christian from a contemporary chirstian movement, somehow capture the debates of the time.