Relating the visual arts to Christianity and other faiths
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Book Award: winner announced
We're delighted to announce the winner of this year's Book Award: Natasha O'Hear and Anthony O’Hear, Picturing the Apocalypse (Oxford University Press). And the runner up: Cynthia Hahn, The Reliquary Effect (Reaktion Books)
Visual Communion
Last week for bookings at our first Visual Communion symposium in Durham 7&8 Sep
Ecclesiart
Jonathan Parsons Cruciform, 2011 (at Guildford Cathedral)
Ecclesiart is an online resource for browsing modern and contemporary works of art in churches.
Events
St Bede's Basingstoke, JBKS Architects with Robert Murray
Art and Christianity events for its members and the public include lectures, courses, workshops and day trips.
Awards
Maciej Urbanek HS, 2015 (at St Michael's Camden)
Art and Christianity Awards are for Art, Architecture and a book. Look out for the next round of Awards in 2019.
“It’s very interesting to me how it will work producing art projects in buildings which are strong public places – they are live religious spaces. I think this is very exciting for an artist and anyone interested in the nature of place. There’s a living tradition that is being upheld in a church.”
- Laura Purseglove, Project Curator, Art in Churches
Art in Churches
Katia Kameli, Ritournelle (once more, from the top), 2017
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Rona Smith Power of Two, 2007
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Banner image: Ceri Richards, Reredos painting and tabernacle for the Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament, Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, 1966