Michael Landy’s Multi-Saint (2013) is now on view at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.

The work was acquired through the CAS Collections Fund at Frieze in 2025, alongside Shaqúelle Whyte’s In an embroiled fashion (2025), to feature as the centrepieces of the Walker’s 150th anniversary celebrations, as well as becoming part of its contemporary collection. Known for its rich collection of religious works from the 15th century onwards, a priority of the Walker’s collecting practice today is to acquire works that engage with the historic collection.

Landy’s interactive and kinetic work Multi-Saint, represents the saints—St Catherine, St Lucy, St Peter Martyr, St Lawrence and St Michael—along with their identifying symbols. The sculptural assemblage also draws upon modern references, in particular, Swiss artist Jean Tinguely’s foot-pedal operated kinetic sculptures, which Landy first encountered as a student at Tate Britain in 1982. Created after Landy’s National Gallery residency (2010–2012) and subsequent exhibition, Michael Landy: Saints Alive in 2013, Multi-Saint captures fragments of Christian iconography from artists also seen in the Walker Art Gallery’s collection: Carlo Crivelli, Ambroggio Bergonone and Hans Memling.

Michael Landy
Multi-Saint, 2013

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