Online exhibition: Where is God in our 21st Century World?

The Chaiya Art Awards are the UK’s biggest art awards exploring spirituality through the visual arts. Due to the coronavirus, the 2020 Chaiya Art Awards, for which I am one of the judges, has been postponed until Easter 2021 and will take place at gallery@oxo on London’s Southbank.

Chaiya Art Awards believe that art can play such an important role in our current situation, to calm the soul, to challenge our perspectives and world views, to inspire and encourage us, to engage with creativity and the mystery within. It can give us and other people fresh perspectives on what is happening in our neighbourhoods and across our world. Art can bring hope, comfort or challenge.

As the 2020 awards have been postponed until Easter 2021, they have decided to showcase an exhibition never seen online before. From over 450 submissions, they selected over 35 visual artists in this curated and judged exhibition as they respond to the theme of the inaugural Awards: 'Where is God in our 21st Century World?’

To visit this 3D virtual online exhibition, click here. After you have visited the exhibition you can vote for your favourite piece, the winner of the public vote will win £500.

There is also an accompanying hardback book featuring all the exhibition artists, plus an additional 35 artists, alongside inspiration writing, poems and quotes. During the online exhibition this is available at a special discounted price, click here to buy.

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Mavis Staples - All In It Together.