Clack and Pouka: Olympic exhibitions

I've enjoyed seeing Olympic-related exhibitions in Central London today featuring two commission4mission artists.

Chris Clack is part of exhibitions at Westminster Abbey, St Margaret's and Methodist Central Hall celebrating the Cultural Olympiad with a range of artistic forms from sculpture, carvings and glasswork to art installations, photography and paintings in various medium. The exhibitions are in partnership with More Than Gold, the agency established by all the main denominations to help churches make the most of the Games. The ‘Westminster Arts Inspired by the Games’ Festival is open throughout the Games and incorporates work from a number of celebrated artists from around the world. Details on contributors can be found at http://www.morethangold.org.uk/art.

Pouka is currently exhibiting paintings and sculptures (including the 18 metre long 'I AM' painting) at the African Village in Kensington Gardens, just opposite the Royal Albert Hall, which is there for the duration of the Olympics. The African Village is a village of stands presenting the cultural and artistic diversity of the African continent through an exhibition area and a restaurant open to the general public.

At Methodist Central Hall Westminister I also saw both Key of David - a huge canvas, 18 feet high by 72 feet long painted by artists from every corner of the globe - and a selection of work from the Methodist Collection of Modern Christian Art. This latter exhibition offers the public a rare opportunity to view works from this impressive, yet little known, collection. On show are artworks by key twentieth-century figures, including, but not limited to: Graham Sutherland, Edward Burra, Eric Gill, Patrick Heron, Elizabeth Frink, Jacques Iselin, Georges Rouault, and Craigie Aitchison.

Finally, I enjoyed seeing this year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei plus To The Light, a retrospective of work by Yoko Ono exploring her influential role in contemporary art across a wide range of media and showcasing her continuing interest in the relationship between the roles of artist and viewer.

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