GBS Fine Art working with Niche 338

GBS Fine Art is proud to be working in partnership with Wells Cathedral, the Project Factory CIC and Niche 338 to raise funds to bring a new work entitled DOUBT by world-renowned sculptor Antony Gormley to the City of Wells in Somerset.

Specifically created for the empty Niche 338 on the magnificent west front of Wells Cathedral, DOUBT will undoubtedly inspire a new reading of this gothic masterpiece while fashioning a dialogue between the medieval and the modern. Resident in its niche for some 12-18 months, it will garner national, and indeed international, attention and greatly enhance visitor numbers to the city and its surrounding attractions.

Antony Gormley says: “I have chosen this niche for its position and its visibility: the book at the end of the bookshelf. I have used the orthogonal geometry of our modern habitat to evoke the body as a place rather than as a carrier of narrative illustrated by appearance and attribute. The work attempts to invoke the feeling of being isolated and exposed on this corner of a Gothic masterpiece. My purpose is to engage the eye and body of the viewer in empathic projection, to consider our time in the shelter of other times”