New evocative sculpture will go on display for the first time in Bradford Cathedral’s Holy Spirit Chapel.
On Monday 20th October 2025, From Rubble Reborn will be installed in Bradford Cathedral. The clay sculpture has been created by ceramics artist Mo Schofield in response to Jyoti Sahi’s Dalit Madonna, which was on display in Bradford Cathedral as part of the Methodist Modern Art Collection’s Everything is Connected Arts Trail.
From Rubble Reborn invites reflection on birth, hope and humanity across borders. The work shows a baby emerging from rubble – fragile, sacred, universal. Who do the hands belong to?
The new sculpture will be installed in the place of Dalit Madonna by Jyoti Sahi, which was on display in the Holy Spirit Chapel during September 2025. Dalit Madonna shows a reflection of the person of Jesus from other faith perspectives, and asks us to consider his connection to the disenfranchised. This new work continues this theme and highlights its continued relevance across the world today.
Mo Schofield, known as ‘Inner Mo Ceramics’ is an artist whose work aims to find the inner response to the outer experiences that the world presents using the outer material of clay and ceramics, namely in the form of figurative sculpture.
She is largely self taught but says she has been lucky to have had some amazing tutors on short course workshops, largely in and around West Yorkshire, who’ve shared their skills and techniques for working with clay in the sculptural form.
She works mainly from her small cabin studio at home but also rents a desk one day a week at The Sculpture Lounge in Holmbridge, where she is constantly inspired by those who work alongside her.
Mo says, ‘It took me a while in my clay journey to realise that it was the human form that interested me most, it’s faces that fascinate me, as they give expression to the emotions and stories that lie in people’s inner world.
The Methodist Art Collection title, ‘Everything is connected’ connected me back to my Methodist roots along with the fact that 40 years ago in 1985, I visited and stayed with Jyoti and Jane Sahi in Silvepura near Bangalore.
The piece, ‘From Rubble Reborn’ is her first public work of art and responds to the inspiration of Jyoti’s ‘Dalit Madonna’ hands and his baby Jesus as the grinding stone. She wanted to think and connect to the Palestine Jesus was born in and the Palestine of today; ‘With the man-made grinding stone of Jyoti’s becoming man-made rubble from destruction.’