Opening Night  – Friday 30 August from 6pm – 8pm
To be opened by Susanna Pain, dancer and priest
Music by Marion Street Sacred Arts Project, featuring the songs
of Gabi Cadenhead and Mikali Anagnostis.

Pitt Street Church plays host to a vibrant range of works by artist Rod Pattenden specifically prepared for this space. These works celebrate the vibrancy of nature and the ecstasy of being alive. These large scale oil paintings explore ecstatic states while acknowledging the fragility and pain of being human. They offer sensual and queer perspectives on religion as a place inhabited by diverse bodies that change during the shifting seasons of life. Rod Pattenden is an artist and theologian who has written widely on the arts and spirituality.

Exhibition Times:
Wed – Sat, 10am – 2pm
31 August – 12 October

Original Bliss – Paintings
Original Bliss – Artist Statement/Flyer
Encountering Original Bliss Visio Divina (.docx)
Encountering Original Bliss Visio Divina (.pdf)