Sat 13th Sep - Sat 20th Sep, 12pm - 6pm 

The walls of the Leper Chapel have enclosed a space for 900 years. That’s forty-five cycles of a person’s birth to adulthood. The lepers who lived in and around the Chapel when it was first built suffered from a disease which today is easily curable. The English they spoke is so distant from contemporary language that we wouldn’t be able to understand them, nor they us. In one sense the Chapel stands for change over time, for how the farther we go back, the more different things were. 

But in another sense, is anything new? The dehumanising ostracization experienced by the lepers; wider society’s morbid fear of contagion- these are currents which still flow through our society. 

We are five artists who’ve been inspired by the Chapel and its ancientness. Each of us has made work which is in part a conversation with the building and in part pays homage to it as a capsule, densely packed with layer upon layer of human experience. 

Emma Sheehy builds up a collection of creatures to play with in her sculptures. The strange beings which she creates smile at our contemporary moment and the repeating patterns we find ourselves in. 

@emma_sheehy_ 

Oliver McConnie explores the subversive potential of printmaking. His prints employ the grotesque, historical symbolism, and modern social mores to form a critique of the contemporary political environment. 

@oliver.mcconnie 

Telemachus is a music producer and sound artist who cut his teeth in South London’s hip hop and grime scene. His piece for the exhibition evokes a sense of memory, absence, or haunting– a presence tentatively returning. 

@forestdlg 

Temsuyanger Longkumer explores the human body as a microcosm for events beyond the skin. For the exhibition he is expanding the concept to examine buildings as body-like entities which both reflect and hold the world around them.  

@temsuyanger_longkumer 

Tom Crowley is a social history curator who also makes art. For five years he lived a couple of streets away from the Leper Chapel. The works he is showing feel for connection between the quiet streets and empty commons of North Cambridge and a medieval world suffused with the supernatural. 

@tomwfcrowley 

Please note, there is no car parking at the Chapel itself, but car parking is available on nearby streets. There will not be any toilets available at the Chapel, the nearest public toilet is 300 metres. There is a large step into the Chapel. 

 Free entry