Grosvenor Gallery 
24th September - 17th October

“We spend our lives forever taking leave” *R. M. Rilke
Rilke knew what it meant to be always departing. He could identify with “the wanderer who, halting on the hill from which he sees his native valley the last time, turns around and lingers”**. When do the wanderer’s steps become those of the pilgrim? Pilgrimage has the holy place as it’s end, yet it may involve no physical journey. Sometimes it is the journey of life itself. It may also seem to us as a kind of return. The Lost Son of Christ’s parable begins his pilgrimage in earnest when he has “come to his senses” and makes for home.

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Pilgrimage
awakening
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August
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Bed-chamber
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Dance
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Danish girl
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Easter morning
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Evening
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Farmer
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The Vigil
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Felled Trees
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Girl with a dream
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Hooded boy
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House by the canal
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La Place du Bourg, Bruges
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Memory of a flemish town
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Messenger,1963
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Mother and daughter
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Offering
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On the steps
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Place du bourg, bruges
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Poppies,1
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poppies,2
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Prayer
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Procession
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Pursuit
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Reader,1
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Reader,2
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Reformer
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Seraphita
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Skull
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Skull
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Spanish boy
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Still life with coffee pot
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The General
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The lost son
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The shore
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The Silence
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Theologian
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Threnody
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Two girls
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