This series ‘House Meetings’ aims to represent a depiction, or a visual confluence, between Christianity and photography within Northern Ireland.

Increasingly, on a daily basis ‘House Meetings’ occur within many homes throughout Northern Ireland and other countries. ‘House Meetings ‘ are considered within the Christian Faith as extensions or ‘branches’ of the church (or body of Christ) which offer an opportunity to search the Scriptures, grow in Christ, to have fellowship with one and another through prayer. Contemporary society may view them as support groups for Christians. These ‘House Meetings’ occur irrespective of class, gender, age, nationality, creed, colour and interestingly political stance.

In creating this series the meetings were photographed and explored through an evangelical Christian lens, captured during different forms of gathering; prayer meetings, bible studies, time of worship, group fellowship having meals together and they varied in degrees of formality. Each house varied in size, as did the location of each meeting. The location, style, structure, content, number of attendants and formality varied; uniformly the ‘focus’ of these meetings was Christ centred.

Whilst each house photographed from outdoors is not notably or distinctively different; they are not evidently or denotably Christian, when compared to other homes within their respective neighbourhoods, or even to the other homes in the series, the décor within these homes were suggestively Christian in theme. This included faith inspired ornaments and books decoratively positioned throughout their living areas. From a Christian perspective the attendees served to further decorate (symbolically) the inside of each house, this is perceivable to passers by or viewers of this series. Objects are not the focus; the Christian ethos is palpable.