About A+C and its staff and trustees
Art and Christianity seeks to foster and explore the dialogue between art, Christianity and other religious faiths. Through events, publications and consultation, we offer:
education, enquiry, and exchange with regard to the relationship between art and faith
collaboration and partnership with galleries, art institutions, and places of worship
advocacy for and advice on commissioning works of art
awareness-raising of the diversity of historical and contemporary art in churches
Annual Reports and Accounts
Download our latest annual report and accounts (2022) or read our 2022 Impact report.
A brief history of Art and Christianity (formerly ACE)
In the late 1980s the late Tom Devonshire Jones (1934-2015), then vicar of St Mark's Regents Park, began making formal connections between the individuals who he knew shared his passion for and knowledge of art and Christianity.
In 1991, Art and Christianity Enquiry, as it had been named, hosted its first series of seminars entitled 'Art – theology – church' and gathered academics, clergy and artists from around the world to meet in London for its first international conference.
By January 1994 the charitable trust had been formed and ACE continued to hold events and lectures, as well as the biennial international conference.
In 1995 ACE began publishing its quarterly newsletter then known as the ‘Bulletin’, now an internationally respected 20-page journal called Art and Christianity. In December 2017, the trustee board agreed to shorten the name of the organisation to Art and Christianity.
Staff
Laura Moffatt
Director
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Laura Moffatt studied Fine Art at the University of Newcastle and Arts Criticism at City University. She has previously worked for Art Monthly and for PEER, and co-authored Contemporary Church Architecture with Edwin Heathcote in 2006. Laura is a member of the London DAC and the Church Buildings Council.
Marie O’Grady
Admin, communications and Events
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Marie O’Grady is an experienced pr and marketing manager with an interest in the church, the arts and social justice.
Marie is currently on maternity leave.
Trustees
Chair: Canon Dr Paula Gooder
Jacquiline Creswell (Curator and Visual Arts Advisor to Salisbury Cathedral)
The Rev’d Duncan Cowan Gray (Curate at St Mary of Eton, Hackney Wick and Co-Founder of BRODIE, a responsible business consultancy)
The Revd Dr Ayla Lepine (Art historian and Associate Rector, St James’s Piccadilly, London)
The Very Rev’d Andrew Nunn (Dean of Southwark Cathedral)
The Revd Canon Charles Pickstone (Art critic and Vicar of St Laurence, Catford)
The Revd Professor Ben Quash (Professor of Christianity and the Arts, King's College London)
Novelette Stewart (Conservator, and member of the Cathedrals Fabric Commission for England)
Ben Quash is Professor of Christianity and the Arts at King's College London. Here he recalls his first involvement with A+C and how that has evolved in the last 15 years.
Ayla Lepine is an art historian and Associate Vicar of St James’s Church, Piccadilly in London. She has a deeply held passion for and knowledge of art that she expresses as a way of seeing ‘God in the world’.
Jacquiline Creswell is Visual Arts Advisor to Salisbury Cathedral. Here she tells us what motivates her in this role and why she. recently joined the board of A+C trustees.
Our Advisers
Dr Marjorie Allthorpe-Guyton (former Director, Visual Arts, National Office of the Arts Council of England, chair of the ACE Art Award 2007)
Danielle Arnaud (gallerist and curator)
Paul Bayley (Formerly A+C's Art in Churches officer and Director of the Florence Trust Studios)
Dr Monica Bohm-Duchen (Associated lecturer in Art History at Birkbeck University)
Professor Sarah Coakley (Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity, University of Cambridge)
Stephen Cox (sculptor)
Edmund de Waal (potter and writer, Professor of Ceramics at University of Westminster)
Professor Eamon Duffy (Emeritus Professor of the History of Christianity, University of Cambridge)
Lord Freyberg (artist)
Lord Griffiths of Pembury and Burry Port (formerly Superintendent of Wesley's Chapel)
Sophie Hacker (artist and educationalist)
Lord Harries of Pentregarth (former Bishop of Oxford)
Professor David Jasper (Professor in Literature and Theology, University of Glasgow)
James Knox (Managing Director of The Art Newspaper)
Neil MacGregor (Founding Director of the Humboldt Forum)
Anna Moszynska (writer and consultant lecturer at Sotheby's Institute)
The Revd Julia Porter-Pryce (former curator and parish priest)
Dr Chloë Reddaway (Research Fellow, King’s College London)
Dr Aaron Rosen (Professor of Religion & Visual Culture and Director of the Henry Luce III Center)
The Rt Revd David Stancliffe (former Bishop of Salisbury)
Lord Williams (former Archbishop of Canterbury)