Exploring Spirituality - Autumn 2018

Thou who art the innermost Spirit of my being,
Art thou pleased, Lord of my Life?
For I gave to thee my cup
Filled with all the pain and delight… (Rabindranath Tagore, ‘Jiban Debata’, 1895)

Fiona Pearson was a senior curator there for 25 years, working in the fields of prints and drawing, painting, scripture and for 10 years was also the Paolozzi Curator. She grew up as a Quaker but left in 2005 doubtful of her pacifism and no longer certain that organised religion was the only way.