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Alexandra Banks is an artist who works in faceted glass. She recently installed a suite of new windows at Holy Apostles Anglican Church in Woy Woy NSW. This conversation will explore her work (with lots of beautiful images!) and it’s intersection with trauma.

“As an artist, and theologian, I actively seek out the edges of creative and scholarly domains,” Alex says. “My story and my lived experiences are not adequately represented at the centre of traditional ecclesiastical practice… My artistic practice – specifically, faceted glass – provides the visual framework to bridge the gap between a theology of trauma, lived praxis, and contextual knowing.”

So, why stained glass specifically?

“Museums and churches are historically in the practice of visually documenting and curating humanity’s ongoing relationship with creation and Creator. It could be argued that ecclesiastical art forms such as architecture, stained-glass, and liturgical ornamentation contribute to the archiving and interpretation of humanity’s perpetually-unfolding creative response to the infinite self-communication between humanity and the divine.”