Each one is completely unique and develops from an initial large-scale painting.
Then in collaboration with the photographer Mark Howard, it becomes digitally integrated within the complete photomontage you see, before being printed onto fabric which is then painstakingly tailored into a vestment.
The shape of the cope was inspired by the wonderful early English copes in the V&A collection, in London, and the incredible copes on display in the Macarena Museum in Seville, Spain.
“Who ever wears this, has the power to change minds” Terry Duffy
This was the first religious vestment made using real images.
Photomontage of images from WW2
Terry was commissioned to create this cope by Bishop Christopher. The Vestment is normally worn on Remembrance Sunday every year by those involved in the work of reconciliation in the ‘Community of the Cross of Nails’.
Wearing the cope is a demonstration of truth, reality, and reconciliation.
Coventry Dresden Cope depicts the brutal destruction of both Coventry and Dresden.
The left of the photomontage shows the visit by Winston Churchill to Coventry’s ruined cathedral. Above that, the statue by Jacob Epstein of St Michael overcoming the devil, which is sited close to the cathedral’s north-west door. On the right, Duffy depicts the ruins of Dresden, with a British bomber flying overhead. Also, the Frauenkirche which was destroyed during the bombing raid but is now wonderously restored.
‘The Remembrance Cope’
‘The Archbishop Desmond Tutu’
