This year's artwork for Glastonbury Festival, drawn and painted by me and my daughters was inspired by Mediaeval and modern stained glass windows. We looked at glass from Paris to Ireland, and one thing is for sure; it's beautiful. The subject matter of much of it is another matter.
We imagined stained glass windows made for a world without patriarchal monotheism and without the bleak promise of eternal damnation for unbelievers and transgressors.
Instead we would make stained glass for everybody, for a world of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion - maybe stained glass for festivals? Oh, but you don't really want glass at a festival... And making stained glass windows is a highly skilled trade, involving glass cutting, molten lead and moments of mild peril.
So instead of doing all that we just drew and painted it. And now our scrawls and daubs have been made into a screen print, which we hope would bring some of the beauty of a stained glass window from an imagined beautiful world to the world in which we actually live.
The title? It's the last four words of Margaret Atwood's novel 'The Handmaid's Tale'.
Glastonbury Festival X Stanley Donwood 2025
Paper Size 500mm x 700mm
Print size 450mm x 645mm
16 Colour Screenprint
Somerset 300gsm paper from St Cuthberts Mill.
An edition of 300 prints signed by the artist.
Blind-embossed with the Slowly Downward Manufactory seal.
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