Art exhibition at King’s College

An unusual exhibition which looks at the fanciful expansion of King's College through architectural sketches executed in a naive, intuitive idiom is now open in the King's Arts Centre. The exhibition, which displays work by Cambridge alumnus John Devlin, includes 22 architectural sketches which look at the expansion of King's College in the spirit - if not the letter - of the man who founded it in 1441, the saintly king Henry VI. The individual sketches are 8.5 x 11 inch sheets, executed in ball point pen, crayola crayon, Laurentian colour pencils and simple marker pens to give a sense of the quickness of doodling, which may also be architectural sketching. Devlin was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia and studied architecture at Dalhousie University, graduating in 1977. After two years as a stockbroker, he decided to enter the Church ministry and to that end applied to Cambridge. He attended St Edmund's College between 1979 and 1980 to study the theology tripos. After unfortunately falling ill Devlin returned to Canada in June 1980.