The Art and Christianity Awards are one of the more positive legacies of the new millennium, being set up in 2003 to draw attention to the abundance of creative responses to the Year 2000. Although the first round of awards only invited entries from churches and...
Christopher Clack says; I have been making images for as long as I can remember, and for as long as I can remember there has always been an element of religious imagery or content in the work I have produced. Why this should be, I do not really know. What I do know is...
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 questioning the freedom consumerism...
William Hood, when writing of Fra Angelico at San Marco, noted that the ‘translucent surfaces’ of the architecture ‘shimmer in the soft currents of light gliding over from just outside’. It is, he said, ‘like looking at nature reflected in a pearl’. Polidori has...
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, and issues of...
Mat Collishaw grew up in a Christadelphian family - the Christadelphians are a non-Trinitarian, millennial Christian group who describe themselves as 'a lay community patterned after first century Christianity' - but gradually became disillusioned with the faith. 'I...
In his book, God in the Gallery: A Christian Approach to Modern Art Daniel Siedell suggests that many works of modern and contemporary art are ‘poignant altars to the unknown god in aesthetic form.’ He makes this claim because such works manifest the priestly function...
Churches hosting exhibitions and artists is a fantastic development says Almuth Tebbenhoff, co-curator of The London Group's outdoor exhibition 'Coming Good: Come Hell or High Water' for The Waterloo Festival. When you enter a church, she says, 'it is for a bit of...
In 1983 John Bellany painted a double portrait depicting himself alongside Alan Davie. These two influential artists are Scotland's best-known post-war artists. Cradle of Magic at Newport Street Gallery sets the work of each alongside the other and begins with a...