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Swift
Swift
Swift
Swift
Swift
Swift
Swift
Swift

© the artist. Image credit: Museum of the Order of St John

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A swift in flight angled on a base bearing the eight-pointed cross of the Order of St John. This is related to the 'Tree of Hope' sculpture by Mark Coreth in the Muristan Clinic Garden, an ophthalmic clinic run by the St John Eye Hospital Group. Symbolic of hope and life, the 'Tree of Hope' s a bronze olive tree with a canopy of swifts in flight. Coreth devised this artwork to represent the complex history, and resilience and dynamism of Jerusalem. The individual swifts in flight, of which this is an example, were sold in aid of the Eye Hospital, with the intention that the message of hope for the Holy Land, symbolised by the swift, will spread across the world.

Museum of the Order of St John

London

Title

Swift

Date

2017

Medium

bronze

Measurements

H 18.5 x W 33 x D 14 cm (E)

Accession number

LDOSJ 2017.16

Acquisition method

gift from Surgeon Rear Admiral Lionel Jarvis CBE DL KStJ, Prior of England and the Islands of the Most Venerable Order of St John of Jerusalem, and Chair of St John Ambulance, 2017

Work type

Sculpture

Signature/marks description

on feather on base: M. Coreth

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