SALISBURY Cathedral will display four unusual works of art this summer to reflect the values and legacy of the Magna Carta.

The four artworks focus on community, inclusion and interaction in different ways.

Cathedral Curator Jacquiline Creswell was helped by volunteers to assemble “Alternative Perspective”, a tile project which explores the Magna Carta from the perspectives of offenders.

The curator has running workshops with offenders at Erlestoke prison and working towards creating a tile montage inspired by the original medieval tiles at the Cathedral.

Jacquiline said: “This project has proved the offenders’ creativity is boundless.”

Enlightenment, created by international digital arts group Squidsoup, is a walk-through 3D array of thousands of lights intended to suggest presence and movement.

Squidsoup founder Anthony Rowe said the lights “create environments, atmospheres and physical spaces that you can enter, affect and immerse yourself in.”

Squidsoup will also display Power of Words, which will consist of a wall projection of words relating to society and justice, which will move and shudder when touched and turn into other words.

Both Enlightment and Power of Words will be on public display from June 13 in the North Porch and Morning Chapel.

World’s Eye is a colourful Batik Flag installation brought the Cathedral by international artists Alex and Jan Grant.

The project began in 2011 after the Tsunami and Fukushima Nuclear Plant disaster prompted the artists to collaborate with community groups in Northern Japan.

Alex Grant said: “To engage two communities into artistically supporting each other across a 12,000 mil gap, with such a visually exciting a publically accessible outcome, is just amazing.”

It will be displayed in Salisbury Close from June 25 to July 6, before it is taken to Tokyo, Hiroshima and Hakodate.

David Podger led a community banner project, working with people of all ages and celebrating Magna Carta values through mixed media, paint, collage, gold leaf and embroidery.

The banner installation will remain on show throughout the summer festivities.