one last piece of church-related work from the vaults (actually from our shelves full of plastic folders). this leaflet-poster always makes an impression with people who know of the community of the resurrection in mirfield. largely because this is not the sort of imagery you’d associate with them. click on the link and you’ll get a flavour of the community.

but a group of students with a dynamic approach (including james mckaskill, later to be channel 4’s ‘priest idol‘) had a vision of a youth event that would tap into the intrigue about religious orders and new age belief, combining the opportunity to spend a night in a monastery with rock music, midnight mass, bbq’s and chilling out round camp fires.

there’s an obvious debt to anthony gormley and perhaps david bowie too with our ’star man’ illustration. he majority of the poster is set in typefaces designed by eric gill. the community’s logo is from a memorial roundel carved by gill and the chapel has some beautiful stations of the cross carved by gill’s assistant joseph cribb. they’re not usually accessible to the general public so it was a treat to be able to see these when our friend huw invited us to dinner and evening mass with the community. two things stick in my mind - the atmosphere of the plainsong mass and the sizable portions of chicken. “ah! vulture again” commented one of the monks.

(if you want to visit some of gill’s work in yorkshire i highly recommend the publication by graham carey available from the henry moore institute.)