The Art Diary April 2025 – Revd Jonathan Evens
Easter regularly brings exhibitions exploring themes drawn from Christianity; this year is no exception.
31 March 2025
Stanley Spencer
The Art Diary November 2024 – Revd Jonathan Evens
I begin the November Art Diary with exhibitions by artists with whom I have some former connections, starting with some I have interviewed, such as Michael Petry, Sean Scully and Genesis Tramaine.
4 November 2024
Feminist Icon Mary Wollstonecraft Gets Statue – Deutsche Börse Prize Shortlist – Stanley Spencer’s Last Self-Portrait
Feminist Icon Mary Wollstonecraft Gets Statue – Deutsche Börse Prize Shortlist – Stanley Spencer’s Last Self-Portrait
10 November 2020
Stanley Spencer: His Two Wives And A Love Triangle
Despite the fact that this remarkable story has been the subject of fascination and debate for decades in books, films and documentaries this show will be one of the first times an exhibition has been focused on exploring the complex relationships Spencer had with his two wives through his painting.
4 March 2020
Collecting Stanley Spencer: New Cookham Exhibition Explores His Patron’s Influence
A new exhibition at the popular Stanley Spencer Gallery in Cookham titled Patron Saints: Collecting Stanley Spencer, opens later this month.
9 March 2018
The Christian Science Connection Within The British Modern Art Movement
Christian Science does not explain the work of Nash and Nicolson just as surely as their work does not illustrate Mary Baker Eddy’s Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
15 January 2017
Stanley Spencer: Largest Survey Exhibition In 15 years Opens At Hepworth Wakefield
The Hepworth Wakefield is presenting Stanley Spencer: Of Angels and Dirt – the first UK major survey exhibition in 15 years of work… Read More
25 June 2016
Stanley Spencer: Early Drawings To Be Displayed In Hepworth Wakefield Exhibition
The Hepworth Wakefield, Yorkshire’s award-winning art gallery, has uncovered a sketchbook by the artist Stanley Spencer dating from 1907 containing the earliest… Read More
5 May 2016
Stanley Spencer WW1 Masterpiece Exhibited At Somerset House
Leading up to the 100th commemoration of the outbreak of the First World War, Stanley Spencer’s poignant memories of war… Read More
16 November 2013