Lenten art.

The annual burgeoning of Lenten exhibitions continues this year with Stations of the Cross by solo artists Mark Cazalet (Leicester Cathedral) and Jean Lamb (Norwich) and city-wide projects in Manchester (Passion Art Trail, see www.passionart.guide) and London (see www.coexist.org.uk/stations2016.html): Mark Cazalet will be in conversation with the Dean of Leiecester, The Very Revd David Monteith, about the works which were made in 1998/9 for Suffolk churches; Jean Lamb's Stations are set alongside representations of the Jewish Holocaust; 'Be Still' in six Manchester venues, including the Cathedral, St Anne's Church and the John Rylands Library, will feature 'Quietus' a body of work by Julian Stair reviewed in A&C no75, and a digital altarpiece by Adam Buick of video footage of ceramic bells hung in seacaves around the Pemrokeshire coast; and Aaron Rosen and Terry Duffy, in collaboration with Coexist House, have curated the interfaith Stations of the Cross for London with new works by James Balmforth, Roland Biermann, Philip Jackson, Guler Ates, Michael Takeo Magruder and Leni Diner Dothan. An app called 'Alight' will be launched on 9 February to accompany the trail.

St Stephen's Walbrook (London EC2) also hosts an exhibition of paint ings by Alan Everett and related events take place there during Lent.

Ely Cathedral's current exhibition 'In the beginning was the Word' is accompanied by a lecture series on the 4, 8, 17 & 24 February at 6.30pm in the South Transept. Lida Kindersley and Tom Perkins will give the latter two lectures. Visit http: / /www.elycathedral.org / events / lettering-exhibition or call the box office on 01353 660349 to book tickets (5 [pounds sterling]).