Ali Cherri: Artist in Residence National Gallery – Revd Jonathan Evens
Ali Cherri, as an artist growing up in Lebanon during the Civil War, embodying traumatic experiences of catastrophe and violence
23 March 2022
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Audrey Flack Carlo Crivelli And Robert Indiana – March Diary – Revd Jonathan Evens
Audrey Flack found her signature style during the 1960s. Originally an Abstract Expressionist, she moved through New Realism to Photorealism.
13 March 2022
Sidney Nolan’s Africa Interview With Andrew Turley And Revd Jonathan Evens
Nolan’s Africa will be the first book on Sidney Nolan written with access to the newly opened Sidney Nolan archives
3 October 2021
Genesis Tramaine: A Queer Devotional Painter Interview – Revd Jonathan Evens
Genesis Tramaine is an Expressionist Devotional painter who, through abstract portraits of men and women transcends gender, race, and social structures
7 February 2021
Home Alone Together Twenty Five Artists – Revd Jonathan Evens
Home Alone Together: We are told that home is where the heart is, but also that, while we can travel the world in search of what we need, we must return home in order to find it. Home has been described as the centre and circumference, the start and finish, of most of our lives.
17 May 2020
Art And Faith A Time For Seeing – Revd Jonathan Evens
Edward Lucie-Smith has rightly wondered, as ‘the contemporary art world goes dark, and as galleries – official spaces and commercial ones – slam shut their doors,’ ‘what the art world will be like once all this is over.’ However, the immediate wondering is simply, what do we do now?
28 March 2020
Betty Spackman: Posthumanism Debates – Interview Revd Jonathan Evens
Betty Spackman is an installation artist and painter who exhibited internationally for over 25 years with a studio based in Toronto and Europe before coming to British Columbia.
18 January 2020
A Belonging Project And Exiles Loss and Displacement – Revd Jonathan Evens
Matilde Damele creates screenprints on black plastic bin bags, screenprints of migrants on bold backgrounds painted with house paints named after the positivity and stability they are not afforded, birdcages housing a variety of found and bought objects
7 September 2019
Contemplating the Spiritual in Contemporary Art – Revd Jonathan Evens
Contemplating the Spiritual in Contemporary Art a new exhibition at Rosenfeld Porcini is proof, if proof is needed, that there is no shortage of artists exploring, as Erika Doss described them, ‘the intersections of iconography, religious orthodoxy
30 June 2019
Visionary Cities: Michael Takeo Magruder – British Library – Revd Jonathan Evens
The New Jerusalem, the visionary city, imagined in the Book of Revelation as the eternal environment for redeemed humanity, provided the initial inspiration for the current exhibition of four technology-based art installations by artist-in-residence, Michael Takeo Magruder
13 April 2019
Curating Spiritual Sensibilities In Changing Times – Revd Jonathan Evens
Back in 1977, in the catalogue for ‘Perceptions of the Spirit in 20th-Century American Art’, theologian John Dillenberger argued that… Read More
10 March 2019
Art In Churches 2018: Spiritual Combinations Explored – Revd Jonathan Evens
A fractious embrace was the subtitle of Jonathan Koestle-Cate’s excellent book from 2016 on Art and the Church, and that remains the case for those seeking to explore the interactions between art and spirituality.
3 January 2019
Apocalypse Now: Michael Takeo Magruder Interviewed By Revd Jonathan Evens
The word apocalypse originally indicated an ‘unveiling’, and the speaker in the Book of Revelation is a ‘seer’.
7 April 2018
Jonathan Anderson: Religious Inspirations Behind Modernism – Interview Revd Jonathan Evens
Jonathan Anderson is a practicing artist, whose works have been featured in group and solo exhibitions throughout the United States.
30 March 2018
Art Impacted – A Radical Response To Radicalisation By Revd Jonathan Evens
We face the world in which it appears ever more likely that a Clash of Civilisations will be played out on the world stage, potentially with weapons of mass destruction, as the axis of the world appears to have shifted significantly in this year of political shocks.
19 December 2016
The Art of St Martin In The Fields By Revd Jonathan Evens
Although to some, such as Anselm Franke [i], ‘Faith is incompatible with art’ and even ‘destroys the sovereignty of art,’ the practice of a church like St Martin-in-the-Fields eloquently demonstrates that that need not be so.
28 November 2016
Was Caravaggio A Good Christian? By Revd Jonathan Evens St Stephen Walbrook
Caravaggio – “What a man! What a painter, but what a man and what a believer.” Those are the words of… Read More
6 November 2016